Word: quiets
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...member Undergraduate Council this year, Verba will probably become more widely known among students. An increase in his popularity would seem automatic. But as pressure builds for an extended stay in University Hall, Sidney Verba will undoubtedly be yearning for a less-celebrated study in a quiet library corner--hoping he can make it until noon.CrimsonWilliam F. Hammond...
THINGS GET EMBARRASSINGLY QUIET at University Hall during the warm months. The Summer School bureaucracy, located in far less swank digs on Garden St. manages the temporary inhabitants of the Yard. College officials sit behind their desks and go through the motions, but June, July and August are notoriously slow for administrators in Cambridge as well as students at the beach...
Although Wall Street still projects an image of shouting brokers and mountains of ticker tape, Rolland and his staff conduct their business with quiet, microchip efficiency in a Chippendale-furnished office. Seconds after the Chemical Bank group decides on a stock to buy, an order is called over a tieline telephone link to a Wall Street broker, who transmits the order to floor traders at the New York Stock Exchange. The transaction is registered quickly in the mammoth computers of the stock exchange, which have the capacity to handle deals for up to 150 million shares a day. A phone...
...Quiet and subtle as a diplomatic entreaty, former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, 59, has, like so many members of past White House inner circles, gone into the consulting business. The freshly lettered office doors in New York and Washington provide the name: Kissinger Associates Inc., a blue-chip team that includes Lord Carrington, 63, who resigned as Britain's Foreign Minister when the Argentines invaded the Falklands, and Robert O. Anderson, 65, retired chairman of Atlantic Richfield. The firm's services: strategic planning and advice on international-business decision making for about 20 large long-term corporate...
There once was a family of Hungarian frogs that went on a hopping holiday to the mountains of Transylvania. The mountain forests were aswarm with wolves and wildcats, so the mother frog warned her children to keep quiet. Her youngest son defiantly boasted, "I am proud to be a frog, and it is in the nature of a frog to croak." He hopped off one day to the bank of a pond and croaked so loudly and so long that a mountain goat spotted him and killed him. "I told him not to croak," the mother frog mourned...