Word: roland
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...with NBC's Tom Brokaw in New York, Iverson was one of the first eyewitnesses to describe the scene to an anxious U.S. TV audience. Meanwhile, Wynn and Cairo Bureau Chief Robert C. Wurmstedt lined up an interview with Egypt's new leader, Hosni Mubarak, and Correspondents Roland Flamini and Jack White arrived from Bonn and Nairobi to profile the assassins and follow the funeral preparations...
...center is "not a grand plan by Harvard to change principals in some way." Roland S. Barth, senior lecturer at the Education School and director of the Principal's Center said yesterday. Instead, he said, the center is a place where principals will meet colleagues and exchange "effective school practices" with "Harvard faculty, students, and other educators...
...best to avoid additional fraying of U.S.-West German relations because of the incident. "I know too many German people and too much about the German character," he said, "to think that there would be support for what we call a back shooter." -By Frederick Painton. Reported by Roland Flamini/Bonn
...cunning conundrum. This Victorian novel is also a meditation on the novel form, and on a hundred other subjects that occupy the teeming mind of the book's 20th century narrator. He sprinkles references throughout, not just to Marx and Darwin but to latter-day prophets like Roland Barthes and "the egregious McLuhan." His scenic route through the Dorset flora and fauna includes side trips into the thickets of political and social theory. He announces his presence at every plot turn-probing his characters' thoughts on one page, shrugging genially that he's no mind reader...
...being squeezed between the high cost of acquiring new money and state usury laws that limit the amount of interest they can charge. Banks in 20 states have all but given up on auto loans. Some moneymen are bitter about the loss of the car loan business. Says Roland Sittermann, vice president of the Southeast First National Bank of Miami: "Rates like GMAC's 13.8% are ridiculous. Banks are not about to compete with something like that when we have nothing to gain...