Word: ringe
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...with the bass section now merely as a volunteer. "It's been more difficult for him to replace me, because I'm still here, than for me to step aside," says Vanderveen. But his friends in the choir say singing means more to Vanderveen than he realizes. His key ring is an organ stop labeled "choral bass...
...though Cus never married in 77 years, admitting only one passion. As the legal ward of D'Amato, Tyson was kin to Floyd Patterson, the youngest champion until last week. A Tyson left hook in the second round sent the World Boxing Council's Trevor Berbick bouncing across the ring and almost through the ropes. That made 28 victims in 28 fights, 26 by concussion, from "hydrogen bombs" thrown "with murderous intentions." Tyson also said, in a gentle lisp so becoming and contradictory, "Look at me. I'm just a boy, and I got this belt on my waist...
...Harvard men's fencing team, the 1986-'87 season has a familiar ring to it. Knock off perennial powerhouses Penn and Columbia, and the Ivy title--which has eluded the fencers since 1976--is the Crimson's for the taking...
...that raiders and arbitragers can form what he calls an "unholy alliance." In a typical maneuver, they might have a mutual commitment to buy up stock in a company, limiting their blocks to less than 5% to avoid the SEC's required disclosure rule. Then one member of the ring can leak the rumor of an impending takeover. When legitimate arbitragers leap into the fray, the group can unload at an inflated stock price and make off with enormous profits. Says Bergstein: "Both the raider and the arbitrager have an incentive to tell the other side what they are doing...
...claims the least influence. Although he helped hasten McFarlane's departure by trying to make the National Security Adviser more accountable to him, Regan stresses that the post is independent of the chief of staff. "I don't have foreign policy under me," Regan protests. Such claims hardly ring true to most in Washington. Says one first-term Reagan staff alumnus: "It's clear that Regan's calling the shots. He's the de facto National Security Adviser, the de facto legislative strategist . . . the de facto President...