Word: raring
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Elizabeth Taylor's fifth husband wowed her with the gift of a rare and incredible gem: a $1.2 million, 69.42-carat diamond. Now that Richard Burton has gone his way and Taylor is married to John Warner, the apricot-size gem has, for Burton at least, become love's labor's cost. Taylor, taking advantage of changing markets as well as men, quietly sold the stone for nearly $3 million to New York City Jeweler Henry Lambert. Two bidders, neither of them American, are dealing with Lambert for the clear white, 58-facet stone. Both want...
...bigness to be badness. That is the issue in the current major antitrust cases that the Justice Department is pursuing against IBM and AT&T. Kaufman's reasoning has yet to be tested in other cases and in higher court. Still, some lawyers find it to be a rare reassertion of what used to be a traditional antitrust rule: that the mere existence of monopoly power does not make a big company culpable under the Sherman Act. In the classic interpretation of antitrust laws, says Washington Attorney Joe Sims, a former Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the Justice Department...
...page draft of the Central Committee's instructions for local coverage of the papal visit has been smuggled out of Poland. Though the document may have been amended in later drafts, it betrays a remarkable obsession with detail and provides a rare glimpse into the backstage workings of a state-controlled press...
...intimations of mortality were lightened by a series of passionate attachments to beguiling young men, chief among them Tommaso de' Cavalieri, to whom he sent one of his rare "presentation drawings." This depicts the fall...
...natural step, but not an easy one," she says. "A.B.T. has never had a real artistic policy. Misha is intelligent, and I hope he will find young choreographers and nurture them. He will be good for the dancers, because he is not jealous in any way-and that is rare. But at first there will be trouble. He will have to sweep out the people he can't use. I think he should be courageous...