Word: quests
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...talking about a $10 billion deal to buy MCA from the Matsushita Electrical Industrial Co. The Times reported that Du Pont is expected to announce a buyback of its shares from Seagram within two weeks. TIME Los Angeles correspondent Jeffrey Ressner expects Seagram to face stiff competition in its quest for MCA from Polygram, which already has entered a joint filmmaking venture with MCA, positioning itself as a potential purchaser...
...Stoppard, whose brilliant 1993 Arcadia is still going strong in London (and opens on Broadway next week). Like Arcadia, Indian Ink interweaves two time periods and settings, in this case present-day England and 1930 India. Also like its companion piece, the new play is framed as a quest by a careerist academic who is loaded with data but doesn't have a clue. Here it's an American scholar researching the life of consumptive English poet Flora Crewe-in particular, whether Flora posed nude for an artist named Nirad Das while traveling in India for her health some...
...some, the process of beating the system began with their choice of rooming partner. "I guess you could call it numerology," says first-year Alex Trias. Trias says she consulted horoscopes and lucky numbers in her quest for the right roommate. "Two people in our blocking group are Scorpios, and our lucky numbers are eight. We decided which housing slip to fill out by that number...
Having emerged from the Cold War only to face corruption from within, harsh criticism from Congress and a difficult quest for new leadership, the hardest times for the Central Intelligence Agency are yet to come, the spy agency's Inspector General said in a speech last night at Harvard Law School...
...somatotyping program at Harvard was a quest to "save society," by "bettering inheritance," Hooton wrote in one of his books...