Word: ribboned
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...group of harmless but well-read drudges who are happy with modest honorariums and the free coffee and doughnuts served at meetings. The Turner people made the blunder of assuming that prestigious judges would confer glitter on the new awards. They assembled, at $10,000 a pop, a blue-ribbon panel including not only Styron, Matthiessen and Bradbury but Nadine Gordimer and Carlos Fuentes as well...
...April, after months of discussion and meetings, the blue-ribbon committee convened by the state specifically to improve the design of the crossing over the Charles gave the definitive nix to the $47 million Scheme Z. And at its most recent meeting last week, the group agreed to focus its attention on a bridge design approximately half the size...
...Harvard Medical School came to Leverett for a panel discussion and left with a copy of The Ad to put in my file. I had to beg my parents not to write a letter to The Crimson complaining that The Ad omitted some of my elementary school accomplishments (blue ribbon, kindergarten bike rodeo...). And people still stop me on the street to tell me they're sorry I didn't win the Marshall...
BOSTON--Just one week before it will issue its final recommendation, the blue-ribbon committee convened as an advisory board to the state on its Central Artery Project formally decided against the controversial Scheme Z interchange design...
...same kind of petty reprisals and organized stonewalling that she herself has confronted over the years in her incessant Hoovering of famous figures. After Washington Post book critic Jonathan Yardley panned Kelley's biography of Elizabeth Taylor in 1981, he received a gilded Gucci box wrapped with gold ribbon. "Inside," says Yardley, "was a bag of fish heads and a postcard of Liz Taylor giving me the finger." The card was signed, "From the friends of Kitty Kelley...