Word: suits
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Courage came so naturally to Sakharov that it heartened others. Dressed in a worn suit and bedroom slippers, the tall, perpetually bent-over man with shy eyes displayed a lion's boldness when defying the Kremlin. Mocking his own quixotic ways, he once dubbed himself Andrei the Blessed, an honorific that in Russian connotes a kind of holy innocence. Said computer scientist Valentin Turchin, a fellow dissident who emigrated to the U.S.: "There are two categories of people who have left their imprint on humanity: leaders and saints. Sakharov was in the category of saints." One mournful colleague in Moscow...
...investigation was triggered by the announcement on Sept. 18 of an American Airlines fare increase. Within several days, eight other carriers, including United and TWA, followed suit. The airlines deny the possibility of collusion, insisting that fare decisions are made independently. But critics charge that the carriers use their sophisticated computerized reservation systems to signal pricing intentions to rivals...
Rogers has been with Cruise in Charlotte on the speedway set of Days of Thunder. She is there as Tom Terrific, his solid frame wrapped in a white racing suit with black and red stripes, steps into the chartreuse-and-yellow Lumina. He carries his celebrity gracefully, as if he knows he'll have it for a long time. "I'm just happier now than I've ever been in my life," he says softly. On the fast track of responsible stardom, he just keeps cruising along...
Henry C. Moses--the dean of first-year students--and Christine Hughes--an attorney who represented the University for the general counsel's office in the suit--also gave presentations at Thursday's meeting. Hughes declined to discuss the issue yesterday, and Moses could not be reached for comment...
...They told us not to taunt anyone," said Aretha D. Davis '93, adding that students were informed that they could personally be implicated in a suit, if a neighbor were to file...