Word: slicings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Tomorrow we will once again enter the throes of Harvard's most dreaded semi-annual endeavor, exam period--the season for primal screams, skyrocketing sleep deficits and frustrated yearnings for a midnight slice of Tommy's. In these weeks, sometimes even the brightest scholars make desperate appeals to their guardian angels...
...maybe not. Saudi Arabia's problems are increasingly like the many-headed hydra of myth: slice off a head, others grow in its place. Worse, the Saudi government may be facing two hydras. The four men executed in the first bombing were members of the Sunni Muslim majority of the country. The 40 in custody for the Dhahran attack belong to the kingdom's Shi'ite minority. And the Shi'ite suspects bring with them the specter of a greater menace--Iran, the center of Shi'ism that lies about 160 miles across the gulf. Indeed, the Saudis believe Tehran...
...Agency shogun Michael Ovitz was falling on his ears at Disney, his old outfit was literally rolling out the red carpet for a key element of its strategy to rule tomorrow's Tinseltown. Last Thursday marked the unveiling of the CAA/Intel Media Lab, CAA's bid for a thick slice of the growing PC-software pie and the strongest indicator to date that Hollywood and Silicon Valley's marriage of convenience might turn into true love after all. "We are all, like it or not, surfers on that growing [high-tech] wave," CAA president Richard Lovett told a crowd...
...Lower prices. Hopefully, these measures will lead to lower prices. Paying more than three dollars for a turkey sandwich and more than a dollar for a slice of pizza is ridiculous. Most student centers draw in undergraduates because their prices are lower than stores in the immediate area...
...later, on a rare dry Washington afternoon, Dole summoned Sipple to the roof of the campaign headquarters on First Street, where Dole had re-created his beloved "beach" from his Senate terrace. It was only a chair, a bucket of ice water and a phone, but it was a slice of heaven for the Big Dog. Dole would spend hours there, angling his face to the sun as he worked the phone. When Sipple arrived on the roof for a rare face-to-face moment with Dole, he saw his chance: "Senator, do you have a theory of this election...