Word: summered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...newspaper] has been a priority for a while" for the dean's office, but staff and resources have only recently become available, said Assistant Dean of Students Ellen Hatfield Towne. The quarterly paper format grew out of a yearly College news edition published for incoming first-year students each summer, she said...
...Milos Jakes, the beginning of the end came early last summer. In a series of private exchanges between the Czechoslovak Communist Party leader and Mikhail Gorbachev and his advisers, the Soviet President made clear that his own internal situation demanded a repudiation of the 1968 invasion of Czechoslovakia. If Jakes, 67, did not want to be undercut by the Soviet move, he would have to act -- and act soon. An agreement between Moscow and Prague was struck. Come October, Jakes would convene a Central Committee meeting and expel all Politburo members tainted by the 1968 invasion -- except himself. After appointing...
...inventory of offers, the President at first seemed nervous but began to sound more confident and relaxed, as he promoted everything from an international conference next year on global warming to an increased exchange of college students and a joint endorsement of the idea of holding the 2004 Summer Olympic Games in Berlin. Echoing a long-standing U.S. complaint about the Soviets, he urged them to publish information on their military-force structure, budget and weapons production. He handed Gorbachev a list of possibilities for cooperation between the two nations, including advice on such classically capitalist institutions as banking systems...
...grooming is part of her job, "as people make judgments about youbased on your appearance." Nearly 6 ft. tall, imperially slim and sleekly dressed, she is usually the cynosure of attention at any gathering. Harper's Bazaar named her one of their eight "Over-40 and Sensational" women last summer, and she is a stunning refutation of the cliche of the dowdy feminist. In an era when nonprofit organizations seek out celebrity spokespeople to get their message across, she is the public relations ideal, a spokeswoman who has become a celebrity...
...previous raids, Bilzerian is appealing that conviction. Singer, renamed Bicoastal after Bilzerian sold eight of twelve divisions to meet $120 million in annual interest payments, sought refuge from creditors last month by entering bankruptcy court. But management is no longer his concern: he resigned as Bicoastal chairman last summer after his criminal conviction...