Word: quigley
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...JOAN QUIGLEY, MID-60S; SAN FRANCISCO; Astrologer Hillary Clinton is not the first First Lady to take an interest in the otherworldly. In 1988 there was the spectacle of Nancy Reagan's "friend," astrologer Joan Quigley, helping to determine the timing of political events, schedules, press conferences and speeches by the President. Mrs. Reagan had employed Quigley during the 1980 campaign and approached her again after the attempt on her husband's life. The relationship lasted seven years but broke off when Quigley could not avoid publicity. Since then she has written a book about her work with the Reagans...
...sanitized, official jargon used by the nice people who publish the CUE Guide. If 90 percent of the students in a course complain that a professor didn't understand his material, this will be reported as "a significant percentage of students had some difficulty following the lectures," "Professor Quigley's last original thought came in the 1950's" becomes "while students applaud Professor Quigley's mastery of the history of his field, they long for the inclusion of more contemporary perspectives." And so on. But though the world at large will see only the most banal digest of student opinion...
Oddly, the Siberian tiger -- a critically endangered subspecies -- may have the best chance of survival, but only if poaching is controlled. "The Amur tiger has 800 miles of unbroken habitat to move through," says Howard Quigley, who is co-director of the Siberian Tiger Project, a Russian-American conservation effort, "but unless poaching is stopped, there will be no tigers to move through it." The Tiger Trust and the World Wildlife Fund offered vehicles, training and supplemental pay for Russian wildlife rangers, but the killing of tigers continued as those proposals languished for months on the desks of bureaucrats...
Rosemary B. Quigley...
Rosemary B. Quigley...