Word: soaks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...something is wrong here: They're actually playing baseball. Now, for those of you who don't know, baseball is a summer sport. It's meant to be played on warm, sunny afternoons when you can take a picnic lunch to the field, soak up some sun and cheer on your favorite team...
...walled ballroom of the Hotel Savery. The subsidized tuition is a modest $95, described by Party Political Director Ann Lewis as "low enough to attract, but high enough to require serious commitment. Lewis is delighted that 240 "students," a third of them women, have come from 30 states to soak up from the pros the fine points of campaign organization, fund raising, canvassing and media exploitation...
...foreign counsel, SAMA is now feverishly training a cadre of young Arab moneymen. Boot-camp is the Saudi International Bank in London, owned by SAMA and six of the world's leading financial institutions, including Banque Nationale de Paris and the Bank of Tokyo. The apprentice Saudi bankers soak up seasoning from their more experienced colleagues and practice their skills by helping to manage the bank's $1.2 billion loan portfolio...
...reassembled talents of Camelot labored over a text for him. Then he went on national television to take the responsibility of a young woman's death unto himself but also, simultaneously, to leave himself in a state of dazed blamelessness. His biggest mistake-all penitents beware-was to soak the speech in a disagreeable self-pity...
...tank. Daniel bars druggies, and many tank centers make customers sign a paper stating that they have taken no drugs. But even a carefully controlled tank trip can turn out to be a bummer. Daniel's TV executive, who shows up every Friday for a simple soak, had a harrowing first experience: he felt that he was a neutron flying through space at incredible speeds. "I was so scared," he says, "I didn't use the tank for months...