Word: rushes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...then, did Harvard rush to engage in such a morally ambiguous venture? A cost-benefit analysis: "After consulting with our colleagues and with Iranians of differing political persuasions, we concluded that the possibilities for achieving useful results outweighed the risks involved. Though reasonable people may disagree with this assessment, the factors involved seem sufficiently imponderable that few would consider us morally derelict for proceeding." This case offers an interesting interpretation of neutrality...
Only two years ago the U.S. was gripped by an inflationary panic. With prices rising at an annual rate of more than 17% in the first quarter of 1980, there was a rush to spend cash and borrowed money to buy hard assets that might hold their value. In January 1980 gold hit an alltime high of $875 per oz. in New York, and silver sold for $50.35, also a record. Diamonds became an investor's best friend, price of a one-karat flawless stone headed toward $61,100. A handful of fine-arts fans applauded when Juliet...
...greeting cards, books, posters, clothes, games, stuffed toys, jewelry, office accessories (oink-wells), bumper stickers (HAVE YOU HUGGED YOUR PIG TODAY?) and sundry objets d'art celebrating hogritude. Says Charlotte Iwata at Homeworks in Santa Monica, Calif.: "Cats were in for a long time. Then there was a rush for penguins and polar bears. Alligators came and went, thank God. Unicorns still have a small contingent. But pigs are in the lead." Bill Zwecker, owner of a Chicago gift shop, Animal Accents, agrees: "Pigs, like owls, will be a long-term thing...
Like the fortune-seeking prospectors of the gold-rush days, Colony's workers had thronged to Colorado in the past two years from all over the U.S. By the end of last week many of them were on the move again. Swiftly loading crates stuffed with trucks clothes and tools into their mud-streaked pickup trucks and vans, they headed in every direction...
...ability to budget time effectively, Dershowitz maintains a busy personal life that includes attending home games of his beloved Boston Celtics and making regular trips to the opera in Manhattan. In the 1970s, after being divorced and successfully fighting to gain custody of his two adolescent sons, Dershowitz would rush home every afternoon to cook the boys' supper. Rearing them, he says, was "the most gratifying" thing he has ever done. Now that both are away at college, he is ready for a new stage in his life. Perhaps a judgeship? "It would be too constraining," says Dershowitz...