Word: southeasterly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This is not a political question. The politicians will continue to haggle about the "nobility" or lack thereof of our behavior in southeast Asia. But other, less official sources will ultimately explain what happened to us because of what we did. We may find out a little bit at a time or all at once. It may take a long time--Tolstoy wrote War and Peace about 40 years after Napoleon--or we may never know...
...desk tops are soon covered with notebooks, calculators, coffee cups, half-pint cartons of orange juice. This morning's object of study is Waffle House, Inc., a chain of 425 fast-food restaurants, roughly half of them franchised, that began in Georgia and spread across much of the Southeast. Like most examples in Harvard's celebrated case-study method, Waffle House does not simply present some problem to be solved. Instead, the goal here is to assess the critical details in what makes a business a success-or a failure. TIME Correspondent Jeff Melvoin reports...
...office in 1877, Ulysses and Julia embarked on a two-year world tour. Grant dined with Queen Victoria, discussed war with Bismarck, and noted, with eerie precognition, the sorry history of colonial rule in Southeast Asia. The triumphal trip was not enough to catapult him back into office for the third term he sought in 1880. Still, his peculiar luck held. James Garfield, who won, was assassinated just months after Inauguration...
...Toledo, as she had also claimed. Questioned by her editors, Cooke admitted that she had exaggerated her credentials (she had attended Vassar for one year and earned a B.A. from Toledo). Nearly eleven hours later, after more grilling and a fruitless search for Jimmy's house in southeast Washington, Cooke admitted that the boy did not exist and that she had invented most of the story. Cooke resigned and went into seclusion. The Post promptly returned the award and apologized in an editorial: "This newspaper . . . was itself the victim of a hoax-which we then passed along...
...nine teams in number of qualifiers from outside of California, and a close look shows that these five represent most of the major regions of the country. Cincinnati carries the banner of the Midwest. Longhorn Aquatics and the Dallas Dr. Pepper team represent the Southwest, Florida Aquatics the Southeast and Starlit the Atlantic Coast...