Word: roles
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Amiram Nir, North's liaison in Israel, to tell them what happened. Nir waved a piece of green paper at them. Said he: "This is all I got from Oliver North. This is a name of a Swiss bank and the account number in North's handwriting." His only role, said Nir, was to pass on to the Iranians North's instructions to pay money into that account...
...televised -- hearings into the affair. The first witness was Shultz, who stressed what he did not know. The Secretary of State said he considered the diversion of funds to the contras "illegal" -- he was the first Administration official to make such a flat statement -- but asserted that his own role in it was "zero." He confirmed his opposition to the Israeli transfers of arms to Iran in 1985, but contended he was told little or nothing of the direct U.S. sales this year. Though the President signed an intelligence "finding" authorizing them on Jan. 17, Shultz did not hear about...
...season gone, the revamped Sixers are neck and neck with the Boston Celtics, as usual. Since Center Moses Malone transferred to Washington, bulky Forward Charles Barkley has become the dominant figure. After Maurice Cheeks, a whirlwind guard, Erving, at 36, continues to perform probably the third most important role, shifting almost exclusively to the backcourt. By his standards, Dr. J's game has become subtle and subdued. "Man makes plans," he says. "God laughs." But he can still play...
...parents from their wallets. More interested in the here-and-now bottom line than in fairy tales or the mythic wellsprings behind children's play, the marketers have long since phased out the elves in Santa's workshop (and kicked the old gentleman upstairs to his present role as the Colonel Sanders of the Yuletide franchise). Big business, after all, is not kid stuff; the other way round is more like it. In the U.S. last Christmas, according to the ledgers of the Wall Street Journal, "the average household bought 30 gifts and spent $315." In 1985 $12 billion worth...
...belongs to a long line of Emma Bovary's professional admirers. Gustave Flaubert's scandalous character has vamped the imaginations and intellects of writers from Baudelaire to Woody Allen, whose l971 short story The Kugelmass Episode conjures a contemporary character who can transport himself to Yonville to play a role in Madame Bovary. "The mark of a classic," wrote Allen, "is that you can reread it a thousand times and always find something...