Word: spokes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...terms of their research, Martin said they spoke with students and watched what people were using in the dining halls...
...shareholder, delivered in the wake of his $10 billion acquisition of Paramount Communications in 1994--a stunning deal in its day, one that kept Redstone busy for the next four years selling pieces of Martin Davis' empire to pay down a heaping pile of debt. Last year, when I spoke with Redstone for a book I was writing, he reiterated his view that the entertainment world had consolidated about as much as it would for a while...
...people don't care about football here," said senior Paul Dickson, an engineering major. "It doesn't exactly fit into the culture." But the team's ignominious run has aroused the curious. Said another senior, Abbas Ebrahim: "There's the whole Cinderella thing about the streak." As he spoke, Swarthmore scored on a long touchdown pass. The student section erupted. Ebrahim and Dickson bumped chests...
Even before its publication, Purdy's book provoked heavy return fire from the chattering classes it draws a bead on. A long review in Harper's magazine, facetiously titled Thus Spoke Jedediah and reeking of the quippy, jaded wit that Purdy fears the nation is mired in, opened by poking fun at Purdy's past and went on to brand him--ironically, of course--a "young sage," dismissing his ideas as "second- and third-hand musings." The New York Observer, a metropolitan weekly that is to the disaffected Eastern elite what the Daily Racing Form is to gambling addicts, found...
...Mkapa spoke resolutely about the need for increased aid, emphasizing the problems in education and health care that plague his country...