Word: shapely
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Keeping the grounds in shape during Commencement will require the services of 24 additional student and casual workers, Keohan says...
...bank's notoriously disorganized back-office operations, which were plagued by backlogs of check-processing paperwork. Reed cleared up the mess by starting work before dawn, thereby making a good start at earning his "brat" moniker. Some fellow workers felt he was abrasive in whipping the unit into shape...
...thing, the measure will force other holders of Third World loans, most notably such profit-parched institutions as BankAmerica ($7 billion in Third World loans) and Manufacturers Hanover ($7.5 billion), to agonize over whether to match it. Not all the big banks are in the same relatively good shape as Citicorp, and thus they are less able to take such action. Says one top New York City banker: "Reed is being really selfish. The stakes are much higher than the future of a single bank." Reed felt sensitive enough to the issue that he called BankAmerica Chairman A.W. ("Tom") Clausen...
...Queens, is totally unfazed by curious stares, for this is her daily exercise regimen. Not for her the heel-pounding, back-jarring effort of jogging. Instead, she, like many other American fitness enthusiasts, has taken up aerobic walking. If you think mere walking will not keep you in shape, listen to Marian. After three years of pounding the pavement, "the weight has peeled off, along with a tremendous number of inches. I'm aged 50, and I look 42." She does...
...woman still a mother? Impertinent question. You dared not ask it on Mother's Day pumped up with bonhomie, but now a few weeks afterward, in the cooler hours, the problem takes a tomblike shape. In terms of technical, logical definition, can a mother be a mother without doing a mother's things? At her advanced stage of life is she supposed to function institutionally, monumentally, like mother nature, mother wit? Mother Russia: perhaps she is to be seen as Yeats' country for old men. Mother earth: big as all outdoors. Not her, the featherweight fossil in your arms...