Word: quicked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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David Vickery, assistant city manager for community development, said quick action by the council was important because the entire Alewife Quadrangle project rests on a $2.7 million federal grant which could conceivably be cut by the Raagan administration...
...nickname 'mouse'. It was during the halftime of a basketball game, we were losing, and as we dejectedly walked into the locker room all the team could hear was the squeak of my knee-brace--it drove them crazy. That incident combined with my small size and quick little scurry on the court earned me the nickname 'mouse'. The squeak drove them crazy. The nickname drives me crazy...
Against UMass, the sophomore tandem accounted for all nine of the Crimson's goals in a game that saw Harvard jump out to a quick 5-0 lead...
Even Fery, though, is quick to qualify his enthusiasm. "M.B.A.s have not proved themselves in all areas, and especially not in the people area," he says. "Our company is willing to red-circle a young M.B.A. and give him an opportunity on the faster track because he has earned that. But that's only a fast track to success in middle management, not to the C.E.O.'s chair. By the time an M.B.A. reaches middle management, the M.B.A. tool kit is not as valuable. Talent rises, not M.B.A.s. And if that young M.B.A. is not successful early...
...aftermath of John Lennon's murder last December, plenty of people rushed forward to make a quick buck off the Beatles. Author Philip Norman is not among them. His work on this biography dates back to 1968, when he began reporting on the group and their financial empire for the London Sunday Times. After years of research and writing, his project was nearly finished when Lennon was killed. Norman added a sad prologue to his manuscript: "The vigil was for John; the farewell was to all the Beatles...