Word: sharings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...easy to see that Collins and Gicewicz are roommates, good friends. When Collins talks of this football season, there are echoes of Gicewicz's theories, and their matching stubble makes you wonder if the room they share is one without razor or shaving cream...
...course, Liem will have his share of champagne and caviar. He and his wife say they will sponsor international teas to foster cultural diversity at Dunster...
Energized and emboldened by Gorbachev's daring reform campaign, many East Europeans are setting out to draw new conclusions from old lessons. If most Communist countries share a perception of the political and economic forces that have brought them to this juncture, they lack a common vision of where they are going. Acknowledged Solidarity leader Lech Walesa: "Nobody has previously taken the road that leads from socialism to capitalism." Poland and Hungary are pressing ahead with sweeping reforms that promise to disprove the theory that totalitarian regimes cannot change. Czechoslovakia, East Germany and Bulgaria tinker with old formulas in hopes...
...shoes a year. Not satisfied to sell only shoes, companies are diversifying into T shirts, sweaters and shorts emblazoned with their names. All told, the market for athletic shoes will reach $9 billion in retail sales this year, up about 15% from 1988. In a grueling race for market share, once sagging Nike is racing back with revenues of $1.7 billion for the fiscal year that ended in May. Analysts estimate that Nike now claims a 26% share of the market for brand-name athletic shoes. Based in Beaverton, Ore., the company is nosing ahead of its archrival Reebok, which...
...served as dean of the College of Arts and Sciences there before being named B.U. president in 1971. Since then he has increased the university's budget more than sevenfold, hired and fired faculty with abandon, and imposed his tight moral code on campus. Although Silber has made his share of enemies over the years, says George Washington president Trachtenberg, "nobody says Boston University is not a better place now than when he came...