Word: roundness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...competition, Harvard struggled to total 58 points and now stands in fourth place out of six teams. Kansas dominated the first day, holding a commanding 237-142 lead over Georgia. Air Force is third with 66. Arkansas (53) and Boston University (34) round out the competition...
...have to have you in New York on Friday,' " says Gregory Boyd, a California venture capitalist. His solution: buy partially refundable tickets in advance and swallow the penalty if he cancels. "Instead of flying to New York for $1,200, I'll book a week in advance -- $600 round trip -- and take the 25% penalty. Then, even if I don't go, I'm better...
...telephone console resting on a gargantuan round table boasts 90 buttons, and the man seated before it seems bent on using all of them at once. His plump fingers, the nails freshly manicured with clear polish, poke impatiently at the instrument. Visitors flow into the office in a steady stream, yet all the while the man continues a separate dialogue with the console. "He wouldn't be a bureaucrat unless he was in a meeting," he booms into the speaker in a British-accented baritone that is powerful yet velvety. "I want the man, not the message." Poke. A button...
Despite the world map branded with a giant M, the London headquarters of Robert Maxwell's communications empire is conservative by U.S. corporate standards. Yet there is nothing modest about the man at the round table, his command central. "Captain Bob" coined by the press -- is a boulder of a man: easily 250 lbs., and 6 ft. 2 in. tall. His ruddy face is a cross between Leonid Brezhnev's and Robert Mitchum's. His abundant hair, dyed black, is slicked back '30s style to counterpoint bushy black eyebrows that can appear deceptively clownish...
...Trade Representative. Last week's numbers notwithstanding, the trade deficit remains a major threat to the domestic economy. The next trade rep, with fast-track negotiating powers, will face a thorny round of talks with members of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade and the need to continue pressing Japan and other U.S. trading partners to open more of their markets to American exporters...