Word: swiss
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Swimming Coach Joe Bernal has seven experienced swimmers joining his squad: backstroker Roland Wagner, the Swiss national champion; Olympic qualifier Scott Hoy from Australia; sprinters Keith Kaplan of Mattapan, N.J., and Bob Morrison of Portland, Ind.; Paul Ryder, an all-around swimmer from Servana Park, Md.; distance swimmer Mike Caverly of Lacadia, Ca.; and Robert Perkins, a backstroker from Middlebrook...
Unless someone else is paying, you probably won't see The Harvest (44 Brattle St.), which sports an outdoor garden and a quintessentially yuppie crowd. More reasonable is Autre Chose (1105 Mass. Ave.), with excellent French provincial specialities that aren't exhorbitant. The Swiss Alps (where Brattle and Mt. Auburn Sts. meet) offers some tasty and reasonably priced cheesey entrees with lots of rich sauces for the cholesterol fan. Upstairs at the Pudding (10 Holyoke St.) is expensive and trendy and clearly designed for after the theater. That's the best--and maybe the only--excuse for going...
...desired level of neatness. Geography becomes important at this point, too. Officials say a trend in conjoining roommates is placing non-Bay Staters with locals so those new to the Boston area can cultivate a home away from home. "We wouldn't put two Californians, an Alaskan and a Swiss in one room," says Lewis...
...honor his guarantee, Wyman said, the firm would sell $300 million in assets, though any spinoffs would not take the company out of broadcasting, records or publishing. Wyman also claimed that trimming corporate fat could save $20 million annually. Said he: "There is no place (in CBS) where the Swiss watch is functioning so perfectly that there is no room for improvement...
...seven, the Governor of Vermont remembers, she wore little American and Swiss flags in her lapels so that the new neighbors in Queens, N.Y., would know, in 1940, that the Swiss Jewish family was not German. Her widowed mother had brought "Mady" and her brother to the U.S. out of fear that the Germans might violate Swiss neutrality. They lived with cousins, first in New York, then in Massachusetts, and became citizens in 1947. Nine years later Kunin graduated with honors from the University of Massachusetts, having worked as a waitress to pay her way. After earning a master...