Word: suited
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Amid the shambles of Gian Carlo Menotti's opera Goya, which got its world premiere in Washington this month, there was one bright spot: at least the sets are reusable. One of them could double as Lillas Pastia's tavern in Carmen; another might suit Violetta's death in La Traviata. But as for Menotti's already recycled libretto and music, there can be no future...
Boesky works like a machine and claims to sleep only two or three hours a night. He rises at 4:30 each morning and climbs into his chauffeured limousine with IFB-initialed license plates. At work in a vast, white marble suite of offices above Manhattan's Fifth Avenue, Boesky stands behind his desk and punches buttons on a 300-line telephone console as he studies flickering stock-market figures on a battery of video screens. Almost always clad in a dark three-piece suit, with the vest adorned by a gold watch chain, he continuously slurps coffee and information...
...blizzard of demands for records from Boesky and a host of other Wall Street investment firms. Perelman called the Gillette accusations "totally without merit and self-serving." He denied that he had ever had any dealings with Boesky and vowed that he would press on with his takeover suit...
There are, of course, fallback justifications touted for having the concentration at Harvard. Proponents argue that six other Ivy League institutions have Women's Studies programs. But many more institutions have undergraduate programs in business and occupational therapy. Does that mean Harvard should follow suit? How many other schools have a Core Curriculum? Does that mean Harvard should disband its own core...
...Fallout." A 16-year- old girl and her mother sue a hair salon for $150, claiming that a permanent the girl received was so bad that she had to miss her high school prom. In the mood for weightier legal matters? A high school teacher brings a sex- discrimination suit against her school board, charging that she was fired because she got pregnant -- without a husband. Or how about a juicy family squabble? The grandparents of little Tawny argue that the girl should be taken away from her widowed father, a punk-rock singer known as Lord Nasty, whose stage...