Word: shortly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Things appeared to be moving smoothly for the University in May, when Spence and President Derek C. Bok announced that FAS would eventually acquire the site for an academic purpose. But administrators did not rule out the possibility of building a hotel in the short...
...Paid short-term disability leave and 85 percent subsidized health insurance...
...living off baseball by merchandising his relics. In 1985, the year he broke Cobb's record, he arranged to collect royalties on T shirts, beer mugs, pennants and plastic figurines of himself. On the lucrative baseball-card show circuit, where one show promoter has clocked him signing his short name 600 times an hour, Rose earns as much as $20,000 an appearance. He was broke or unsentimental enough to sell the bat from his record 4,192nd hit. One prominent dealer says the memorabilia market is flooded with Rose keepsakes of dubious authenticity; several collectors, he says, claim...
While the Palestinians despair, the Israelis are learning to live with and even ignore the "disturbances." As their sense of urgency wanes, so does the incentive to find a solution. Israel's grip on the territories may ultimately prove untenable, but in the short run, it is the Palestinians who are nearing the limits of endurance. That is precisely what worries Arab extremists, who contend that leaves but one option: to uncache their weapons and return to the front pages in the worst possible...
...invading Poland, he had limited himself to threats and bullying, he might have achieved his main demands, control of Danzig and freedom of movement through the Polish Corridor. It is possible, of course, that the whole dynamic of Nazism required war, but if Hitler had been able to stop short of that, he would probably have been widely regarded as the man who undid the defeat of 1918, rebuilt and restored the nation...