Word: rosee
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Hitch and Football Coach Bobby Collins quit. Their resignations seemed normal in such circumstances, but there was irony in Shields' departure. Since his arrival in 1980, he had pushed academic improvement as well as big-time football, adding 21 endowed chairs. This year SAT scores of incoming students rose to 1,100 from last year's respectable 1,020. But Shields' rejuvenated professoriat, says Faculty Senate President Leroy Howe, "is less tolerant of academic abridgments. They see it as a fundamental compromise of the institution...
Dawson, who died in 1945, wrote that he acted on the wishes of the King's wife Queen Mary and his son the future Edward VIII, who abdicated eleven months later. Nonetheless, the story caused an uproar in Britain, where euthanasia is illegal. Kenneth Rose, George V's official biographer, accused Dawson of "murdering" the King, who was the grandfather of Queen Elizabeth II. A spokesman for Buckingham Palace, which learned of the mercy killing from Watson on the eve of the publication of the notes, said only, "The events happened a long time ago, and all the main participants...
...skydiver. Ramos went on to earn a master's degree in civil engineering from the University of Illinois. As a young officer he saw combat in Korea and Viet Nam, but it is said he has no taste for bloodletting. With his sound military record and family connections, Ramos rose to become Deputy Chief of Staff in 1981 under General Fabian Ver, a Marcos crony...
...background for a single, all-consuming cause: Ronald Reagan. The two first met 20 years ago this month, when Reagan was the newly elected Governor of California and Meese a hard-line Alameda County deputy district attorney. Joining Reagan's staff as legal-affairs adviser, Meese soon rose to become chief of staff. A trusted but low-profile aide, Meese perfected the one-page "mini-memo," in which complex issues were reduced to a few paragraphs for a chief executive who had little patience for details...
...light of McGuire's death, Yale administrators have appointed a special committee to re-evaluate the school's alcohol policy, said Rose Stone, an assistant to the dean of the college. The committee is scheduled to meet for the first time next week...