Word: tapped
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ability to tap Harvard's top minds appeared to hinge on the outcome of the University's own ongoing rules review. To the extent that professors comply with them, Harvard's regulations seemed likely to remain the limiting factor...
...this is in the effort to tap Harvard's 234, 136 alumni, including 81,000 graduates of the College, for donations. "We hope every alum will give as much as they can every year and periodically more than that," says Thomas M. Reardon, director of the University development office. With a $650 million annual budget, "Harvard is a large business," says Reardon. "If you look at what Harvard tries to do, we need all the support we can get and we need to get over the stereotype that we're rich. It's costly and time-consuming...
...Standing behind a lectern in a high- ceilinged, wood-paneled room near his office at the state capitol, a composed and confident Cuomo said, "I have decided to run for Governor. I have no plans to run for the presidency." When reporters pressed him about 1988, Cuomo tap-danced around their questions. Why did he not end all the speculation and say he would not run for President? asked one reporter. "I don't want to lock the door against eventualities that I don't even understand or imagine," replied Cuomo, as if instructing a class of stubborn undergraduates...
...modeled himself on St. Thomas More but can display a kind of conspicuous moral vanity. He is the immigrant's son who talks about mercy and generosity but can be meanspirited and vindictive. Yet contradictions aside, he is that rare figure who is able to inspire, to tap into the souls of voters...
...leading British dance company, to vote unanimously to cancel a spring tour of the Soviet Union. The three-week visit would have been the first by a British dance troupe in 25 years. A government unit that monitors radiation reported that "it is perfectly safe to drink milk or tap water, and there is no need to take iodine tablets." Still, whiskymakers in Scotland fretted that concerns about radioactive water could damage sales. Said Alan Rutherford, a water-research officer for Scottish malt distillers: "We take water from lochs and streams and reservoirs as well as springs...