Word: surely
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...candidate for president, long rumored to be something of a libertine in those matters. [He] challenges reporters to follow him, swears he's not involved in anything like that in this campaign and then immediately after giving an interview saying these things files off to an assignation, "Fouhy says. "Sure, I think it was well within the bounds of reporting on a presidential candidate," for Miami Herald reporters to lie in wait for Hart outside the house where he met Rice...
...Crimson, which sports a 12-game winning streak, is almost a sure bet to win its second straight Ivy and national championships...
...supports Pat Robertson because he's very conservative and will make sure the GOP platform stays that way. Bush and Dole pledge to broaden the base of the Republican party. But mom fears they'll compromise Republican principles in an effort to attract moderates. Robertson is broadening the base of the party, too--but he is signing up thousands of evangelicals and born-again Christians, a move mom supports. He is also wooing thousands of conservative Southern voters, who are switching party affiliation so they can vote in the GOP primaries...
...wrenching rite of passage. In Jean-Loup Hubert's The Grand Highway, the lad learns conventional wisdom, and the film evokes familiar smiles and tears. In Louis Malle's Au Revoir les Enfants, the Nazi occupation of France triggers a boy's crisis of conscience. Malle's movie, sure to be nominated for the foreign-language Oscar, is the bleak, heartbreaking goods, but it shares with the Hallstrom and Hubert films a stringent modesty of tone. All three pictures build their stories through brief snapshots of childhood traumas, like pulsars of memory from the past we all live...
Vagelos proves that corporate leaders can be straight shooters who are persuasive without being abrasive. To be sure, the trim, five-mile-a-day jogger, one of the few chief executives in the drug business with an M.D. degree (and a mere two weeks of business education from a Harvard seminar), is a demanding boss. "When the phone rings on a Sunday morning, you know it's Vagelos," says Edward Scolnick, president of Merck Labs. But the chairman also wins high marks for staying in touch with his staff. He keeps his spartan office open...