Word: searchingly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...search went forward with all the secrecy that might have attended the selection of a Pope. And last week, when the Yale Corporation announced a new president to succeed the retiring A. Bartlett Giamatti, there was little doubt the university had picked a man of very proper parts. "We had a rather long list of qualities we were looking for," said Cyrus R. Vance, former Secretary of State and head of the search committee, "and Benno C. Schmidt Jr. had more of them than anyone else." That takes in a lot of people, more than 400 original prospects...
...Yale community offered virtually no dissent on Schmidt's selection. And the search committee was deeply pleased with its decision, doubly so at having avoided leaks, which eight years ago revealed Giamatti to be second choice. Although Vance was discreetly mum about alternative candidates this time, it was clear that, as a 19th century yachtsman replied when asked who finished second in the runaway victory by the U.S. in the first America's Cup race, "there is no second...
...recent years the chill in Washington-Moscow relations has turned the annual meetings of the U.S.-U.S.S.R. Trade and Economic Council into a littlenoticed and lightly attended affair. But last week, in search of a bonanza, Commerce Secretary Malcolm Baldrige and more than 400 U.S. business leaders descended on Moscow for this year's meeting. Last year trade between the two countries amounted to only $3.9 billion, mostly in grain shipments from the U.S. Yet the executives got a jolt of optimism from last month's summit talks between President Reagan and Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev. They came to Moscow...
...merits. There are good mergers, and there are bad ones. The true danger of the current rash of mergers is that it will distract corporations from the real business of business. American firms, facing ever tougher competition both at home and abroad, need to look beyond the short- term search for a merger partner or takeover target and get back to making products and services for tomorrow's customers...
...valley, in places just 60 yards away, Ethiopian troops are dug in. Some of their comrades, identifiable by their bright green uniforms, lie dead in no-man's-land. An exchange of automatic-weapons fire echoes through the valley. Moments later, two Soviet-built Ethiopian MiGs roar overhead in search of the rebels' camouflaged artillery and tank emplacements. Sipping tea in his command bunker, Afewerki Melke, a field commander of the Eritrean People's Liberation Front, turns to his visitors and says, "Why we're here is simple. All we want is our land...