Word: quicked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...other side, stood the Columbia team-shaven, tapered and quicker. The Lions, who have not defeated the Crimson in four years, wanted to win. Right now. Columbia chose the "quick-fix" strategy...
Pollsters have been quick to generalize in the past. Students of the 1980s, the media has incessantly told us, are materialistic and narcissistic, politically apathetic and obsessed with power lunches, three-piece suits, luxury cars and six-figure jobs. Such an image became so entrenched in the country's prevailing mindset that Time pronounced 1984 the year of the yuppie...
...Turk is quick to say that Harvard benefits from a "revolving door" between state and city staff. He cites the case of Harvard's Planning Director, Kathy Spiegelman, who serves on a variety of community boards as an official or unofficial representative of the University...
...Harvard roster features five seniors, all of whom have made significant contributions in the past. And a strong crop of seniors, Roby is quick to point out, has paid off in Ivy League races over the last few seasons...
Self-assured, quick witted and highly conservative, Lott, 47, has represented the state's relatively prosperous Gulf Coast region in the House since 1972. As a member of the Judiciary Committee, he defended Richard Nixon against impeachment charges. By 1980 his ability to keep friends while taking hard-line positions brought him election as Republican whip. Campaigning for Dowdy, Stennis argued that Mississippi would lose clout, especially in keeping its many defense jobs, with two Republicans in a Democrat-controlled Senate. Lott had an apt reply: "We don't need two Senators who are going to cancel out each other...