Word: raiser
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...know," Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser mused during an Arab meeting in Cairo shortly before his death last year, "I rather like Gaddafi. He reminds me of myself when I was that age." Not even the young Nasser, however, was a hell raiser to compare with Muammar Gaddafi, who at 28 is leader of the revolutionary council that rules oil-rich Libya. Born in a nomad's tent, schooled in the army, thrust to power in a coup that overthrew Libya's aging King Idris two years ago, Gaddafi stands unchallenged as the enfant terrible of Arab...
...nation's tenth largest accounting firm. During the late Eisenhower years he was director of the Bureau of the Budget, overseeing Washington's last set of balanced books in fiscal 1960. Then he became an investment banker until signing on as Nixon's chief fund raiser in 1968; he raised $34 million. Stans' main concession to contemporary concerns has been to give up his favorite hobby -big-game hunting-for the duration; his wife Kathleen has also forsworn her collection of leopard and cheetah coats...
...program was so successful that Fund officials plan to inaugurate for next year a title of "Dean's Associate" for those who give between $1000 and $5000. One representative of the Class of 1926 told the appreciative meeting that Dean Dunlop is already a very effective fund-raiser...
...curtain raiser, fluttery Karen Nash (Maureen Stapleton) books a suite, trying to rekindle the lust hopes of her 23-year-old marriage. But saturnine Sam Nash proves as remote as room service. The reason, Karen correctly deduces, is Sam's office fixture, a Miss McCormack. It is not only the affair that grieves the wronged wife, it is the businessman's lack of enterprise. "Everyone cheats with their secretaries," she wails. "I expected something better from my husband!" But beneath the holy acrimony are wounding truths. Successful Sam is no longer struggling; he wants the arriv...
...trend towards professionalization in undergraduate science education. A shortage of $7 million in the fund of theProgram for Science in Harvard College prevented the construction of a $13 million biology-chemistry building and forced the director of the Science Center to be a financial manager and fund-raiser rather than an educator, he said...