Word: quicked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...School, following a trend some observers say has affected undergraduate campuses in many parts of the country. Students here explain the apparent increase in concern for social and political issues as a reaction to the federal budget cuts and general conservatism of the Reagan Administration. But most are quick to add that activity at Harvard does not yet indicate a strong push to the Left In fact, students say that the Law School continues to encourage conformity and point graduates toward traditional corporate careers...
...need for subtle adjustment are now worried about the instant litany of nos produced by Ronald Reagan's White House on everything from nuclear-arms limitation to the budget. Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev did not offer anything new in his proposed missile freeze in Europe, but the quick, harsh U.S. rejection spooked the world. While the clock feet toward serious economic trouble, Reagan still drags his feet on budget compromise. "The worst mistake the President made," one of his Cabinet officers said the other morning, "was not to accept [House Speaker] Tip O'Neill's tax bill...
...begun to attract local attention and a bit of international interest. Fred Pressman of Barney's recalls working with Armani in "an office no bigger than 14 by 14," crowded with one huge table and a few cane chairs used for everything from long business conferences to quick lunches. Bergdorf's Mello remembers "buying a collection of Armani's under a bare light bulb in a tiny hotel room. We could hardly see the colors, so he took the lamp shade off." In 1975, when the Giorgio Armani Co. was founded, it had a working capital...
...grand master of surreptitious sophistication who is portrayed in the Italian press as brooding, moody, uncommunicative and withdrawn-a Heathcliff with Magic Markers-Armani sets a fast pace and a high level of good humor and good will with his 26 employees. A trim, quick figure of medium height, with cobalt eyes, he is all compacted energy, like a jack just popping from his box, as he shows up for work around 9. He may begin his twelve-hour day by doing sketches, while his staff sorts out a regimen that, typically, has no rigid schedules or fixed appointments. Buyers...
...awkward moment, one of the President's boots stuck in the mud and only the quick reaction of two volunteer workers prevented him from falling into the slime. The incident was a fitting metaphor for Reagan's two-day trip, which also took him to Montgomery, Ala., Nashville and Oklahoma City. The White House had been looking for ways to pull the President out of the thickening political muck in Washington and portray him as a man of compassion. The stopover in Fort Wayne provided just such an opportunity...