Word: prizes
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...pleasantly. By the time he had had a few more Tanqueray and tonics, he was describing his favorite pickup lines on women in Guadeloupe, penile implants and how he had once offered his rear-end to a man. It's amazing how lively people become, well-watered. So the prize for best welcome back party must go to this renowned Back Bay couple, who manage to bring the world to their door and let flies-on-the-wall listen in. Bravo, bravo, bravo...
...authored or co-authored 12 books and numerous articles. Product Development Performance (1991) won the Nikkei prize for excellence in writing about business in Japan...
...team hopes a successful fall schedule will lead to more trophies in the spring, with the ultimate prize being the Ivy League tournament. Harvard finished second to Princeton in that tournament last spring...
...soul of both capitalism and pop-cultural creativity. But another deal last week brought the scenario a step toward plausibility. Time Warner and Turner Broadcasting System declared they were deep in negotiations that could lead to a Time Warner purchase, led by chairman Gerald Levin, of Ted Turner's prize fleet of media properties. If it flies, the deal would again make Time Warner the world's largest media outfit, vaulting over Disney, which has claimed the title for a month after agreeing to buy Capital Cities/ABC for $19 billion...
...history of Myanmar, as Burma is now called, resonates with melodrama and tragedy. The heroic battle of Aung San Suu Kyi, a Nobel Peace Prize winner for her nonviolent resistance against the ruling junta, is surely worth a movie. But in Hollywood the problems of one little country--or one big country with little brown people--don't amount to a hill of unsold scripts. The Burmese must have a Caucasian mediator, Laura, whose sufferings illuminate those of the locals...