Word: rita
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...inside this quiet, nondescript office---seemingly cut off from the rest of the world-is the nerve-center of the entire University, from accounting to zoology, from Daniel Aaron to Rita Zusman. And, ironically, no staff spends more time on the phone then the dozen women who work in this office: Harvard's information operators...
...Rita E. Hauser, Vice President American Jewish Committee New York City
...John Ackerman, dean of the National College for Criminal Defense in Houston. "And few lawyers know how to do it. You get no training or any help at all on that issue in law school." The teachings of courthouse legend are all stereotypes. Prosecutors, says University of Illinois Sociologist Rita Simon, are alleged to favor 1) men, 2) Republicans, 3) the prosperous, 4) bankers, engineers and accountants, and 5) Germans. Defense attorneys supposedly favor women, Democrats, poorer people, social scientists and minorities...
...Holden Bell appeared to be the very model of a hardworking, leisure-loving Los Angeles suburbanite. A U.C.L.A.-trained radar engineer, Bell, 61, had put in 29 years with Hughes Aircraft Co., a major defense contractor once owned by the late Howard Hughes. Together with his pretty second wife Rita, a Belgian-born Pan American airlines cabin attendant, and her nine-year-old son from an earlier marriage, Bell lived in a fairly ordinary-looking condominium complex in Playa del Rey. It had the usual Southern California accouterments-tennis courts, pools, saunas and Jacuzzis. One of his neighbors there...
...spring, a middle-aged man's fancy ponderously turns to thoughts of airline hostesses. This despite the fact that Nick Callan (Len Cariou) is engaged in a less taxing rite of renewal-joining with his wife (Sandy Dennis) and their best friends the Zimmers (Jack Weston and Rita Moreno) and the Burroughses (Alan Alda and Carol Burnett) to open the latter's vacation house for the season...