Word: recommender
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...July 16. That evening, according to U.S. intelligence sources, there was a meeting in Tehran of senior political officials, including Montazeri, Rafsanjani, Prime Minister Mir Hussein Mousavi and Ahmed Khomeini, the Ayatullah's eldest son. With Montazeri providing crucial support to Rafsanjani, his rival, the group decided to recommend that the elder Khomeini agree to the cease-fire. The next day they convened again and received what Rafsanjani described as a "historic and important decision of the Imam," presumably similar to the message later read on Iranian airwaves...
...literary life's ragged edges. The unpublished writer who aggressively demands that Bradbury read her last seven novels (enclosed) is turned aside with a compliment ("Be reassured, a masochistic and paranoid temperament is a well-known sign of a great writer") and a practical suggestion ("May I recommend a pseudonym -- something like John le Carre"). The young academic confronting his first job interview is reminded that he must dress both down (there is always a raging egalitarian on the committee who resents Oxbridge college ties) and up (someone else inevitably believes there is a correlation between white shirts and intelligence...
...destruction of cells in the center of the retina. The condition, known as macular degeneration, is a leading cause of blindness in the elderly. Unlike cataracts, it is not correctable. While acknowledging that the evidence linking sunlight to cataracts and retinal damage is not conclusive, many doctors now recommend that adults, and children too, use sunglasses that absorb nearly 100% of the ultraviolet rays...
...Soviet Union, the tireless roughnecks caroused in the city's red-light district, despite 1,400 patrolling policemen. It was an altogether repugnant show. As a bleary-eyed fan wearing a Union Jack T shirt said, "We'll never be in Europe again. Not even our own government will recommend...
...says Vendler has helped increase the direct contact among the faculty, Dean of the Graduate School Sally Falk Moore and prospective students. "Since January of this year, the effort here has gone to a new level of intensity," Herron says, adding that she can now contact Moore directly to recommend candidates and gets an immediate answer to her requests...