Word: sophia
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...perfect ending for Woodward's dramatic spy saga. Too perfect, in the view of some. Casey's widow Sophia flatly denied that Woodward had seen her late husband in the hospital. Ronald Reagan branded Woodward's account an "awful lot of fiction." Others questioned whether, even if true, Casey's dying nod and the tantalizingly ambiguous "I believed" were enough to close the books on the CIA director's involvement in the Iran-contra affair. Though Lieut. Colonel Oliver North testified in July that Casey had embraced the diversion as the "ultimate covert operation" and many suspect...
...Yacht Charters Unlimited in Rowayton, Conn., says, "Nothing does more for the ego than to be aboard the biggest, most beautiful yacht as it pulls into the harbor." Rates run $49,000 a week for Parts V, $30,000 for the Atlantique (which has been chartered by, among others, Sophia Loren, former Secretary of the Treasury William Simon and FORTUNE 500 executives) and $29,000 for Never Say Never. The charter party must also pay for fuel ($50 to $75 an hour), food, dockage and tips for the spiffy crew...
That's how I experienced the accident. However, my account is nothing like what's been reported in The Crimson. The headlines of the stories alone have been irresponsible: Sophia A. van Wingerden's August 4th article, "Passengers Escape; PBH Bus Aflame," and its inside blurb, "PBH Bus Bursts into Flames" are erroneous and sensational. Again, the same writer in August 7's issue wrote another story, entitled "University Has No Leads in PBH Shuttle Bus Fire," whose inside blurb read "PBH Van Explosion," To set the record straight, the bus which caught on fire last Friday was neither...
...court settlement, the ten-year-old company forced Anheuser-Busch (1986 revenues: $7.6 billion) to drop the checkerboard logo that appears on its Zeltzer Seltzer sodas. American Natural had charged that the Zeltzer Seltzer design looked "confusingly similar" to its own. Said American Natural President Sophia Collier: "This just shows you have to fight for what's right...
...have rigorously guarded their culture, their minds and their gene pool against foreign influences. Today most of Japan's 120 million people still share an unshakable belief that they are different from, indeed superior to, all other people. Says Kuniko Inoguchi, assistant professor of international relations at Tokyo's Sophia University: "There is a set of subtle but complicated rules that exclude outsiders from a homogeneous village called Japan...