Word: rare
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...days before the Senate adjourned last month, Barry Goldwater sat in his office sorting memorabilia. The model of an Apache antitank helicopter was destined for the Arizona Air National Guard. A rare 1964 record album, The Goldwaters Sing Folk Songs to Bug the Liberals, was headed for his home in Scottsdale. The collection of colorful Hopi Indian kachina dolls was tagged for the Heard Museum in Phoenix. The mementos form a miniature gallery of the career of the crusty, often irascible and always independent Senator from Arizona: his dedication to U.S. military strength; his lonely conservatism, which prefigured the more...
...which has been forced to eliminate 215 jobs in the past 14 months, will have to keep its belt tightened. But Stringer says no more layoffs are planned, and for now at least, he seems to have boosted spirits. When his appointment was announced, staffers were heartened by a rare sight in the beleaguered halls of CBS News: everyone from secretaries to executive producers crowding into Stringer's office for a champagne celebration...
...unpretentious and welcoming to students, something really rare at Harvard," says history and science concentrator Richard Seifeddine...
...first of two dark episodes for Mets Ace Dwight Gooden -- McNamara said pointedly, "We probably aren't the greatest ball club in the world." The Mets smiled weakly. In 13 big league years at a rash of stands, this manager has been a man of rare civility and rotten luck. His 1981 Cincinnati Reds won more games than any other team but were gerrymandered right out of the play-offs by a labor strike and a split season. "I will never forget that until the day I die," said the hatchet-faced former minor league catcher, whose memory came into...
...quarter of these firms turn to an outside agency for help in forging their new identities. The name consultants will take in around $250 million in revenues in 1986, in contrast to about $200 million last year. Consulting firms can earn fees of up to $500,000 and, in rare instances, $1 million for suggesting a new name, logo and packaging. It typically takes a consultant between six and eight weeks to come up with a new name, which is usually test marketed before it is adopted...