Word: rare
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Cant't find that rare Zen poem or Lenin's "Materialism and Empiro-Criticism?" Stay right in Harvard Square because specialty book stores are one of its specialties...
...rare moment of levity in an otherwise dour and downbeat Franco-West German summit meeting between the two leaders. Five hours of discussion had failed to dissipate a growing malaise between Paris and Bonn, much less restore the intimate Franco-German relationship that flourished under ex- President Valery Giscard d'Estaing and former Chancellor Helmut Schmidt. The current differences, over trade talks and agricultural prices, seem certain to hinder progress toward greater West European unity. More important, on the prickly issue of Star Wars and Ronald Reagan's invitation to West Europeans to join in the U.S.'s Strategic Defense...
...final best-of-seven play-off -- entitled "What is so rare as a basketball game in June?" -- opened last week with a thunderous 148-114 Celtics victory in their malodorous North Station gym, where the air is as close as the players, and signs on the beer stands caution: SOBRIETY IS NO ACCIDENT. Neither is the Celtics' practical possession of this sport. Boston aside, no team has repeated an N.B.A. championship in over 30 seasons. Even the Celtics have not done it since 1969, the year that Lakers Center Kareem Abdul-Jabbar left UCLA. Now Jabbar leads the league...
Finally, Dillon, chairman of Butler Manufacturing Company in Kansas City. Mo., whose Overseer term expires next June, sits on the board of New York-based Phelps Dodge Company Phelps Dodge, which manufactures rare metal products, owns a flourspar mine in the Western Transvaal which employs 185 people. It also own 44 percent of Black Mountain Mineral Development Company, which operates a lead and silver mine and employs 1500 people. That 44 percent stake produced $1.7 million for Phelps Dodge (out of 1984 revenues of $977.38 million), but company spokesman Richard W. Pendleton says Phelps Dodge plans to sell...
Gingerich is one of a rare breed of professors who take the time to sculpt their courses so that they entertain as well as instruct...