Word: roberte
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...deputy, Lawrence Eagleburger. Another target of opposition has been Lord, whom Eagleburger wanted to be Assistant Secretary for East Asia. And as a sop to the right, a former Helms protege, ( Richard McCormack, got the job of Under Secretary for Economic Affairs, instead of almost everyone's first choice, Robert Hormats, a highly regarded international trade specialist...
...angry energy is clarifying as well as terrifying, and when he unleashes it (usually without warning), the effect is to focus our attention where it belongs, not on a suspense story but on the mysteries of human behavior. Not that there are any comfortable conclusions. Woods' idealistic young associate (Robert Downey Jr.) keeps hoping that Eddie will rediscover his '60s idealism. A private eye (Margaret Colin) is standing by to offer redemptive love. These easy, familiar motivations are avoided. Eddie Dodd is not going to be anybody's exemplary case. He is a marginal one, a hard one, and, like...
...Minnesota in 1968. But poring over 4,000 photos to make her final selections of 150 images, she felt "a shock of recognition and then the realization -- my God, all this happened in 1968?" Like her, you will rediscover the astonishing roller coaster of events, from the tragic (Robert Kennedy's vacant stare from the floor of the Los Angeles hotel pantry) to the trivial (a miniskirt dotted with peace symbols...
...that it was a great deal is a gross understatement. It was unbelievable," says a high-ranking savings and loan executive. So goes the industry's scuttlebutt these days about Robert Bass's takeover in December of the crippled American Savings & Loan of Stockton, Calif. In one of the sweetest deals ever bankrolled with taxpayer money, the intensely private Fort Worth billionaire, 40, stands to benefit hugely from a decade of regulatory laxity. His purchase of American Savings is the pre-eminent episode in a string of controversial bailouts last year in which regulators handed out gilt-edged gratuities...
...could not have picked a dean who was more likely to exacerbate divisions in the faculty."--Professor of Law David M. kennedy, upon hearing Thursday that President Bok had named Professor of Law Robert C. Clark Law School dean...