Word: tiptop
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Staying in tiptop shape has forced the students to make some social sacrifices...
...President had a scare Friday afternoon when, during a checkup, doctors found a tiny colonic polyp. It proved benign. Indeed, said a physician who examined him, Reagan is in "very exceptional" shape as the general election campaign approaches. The frenzied, fretful, fractious Democrats might well envy that tiptop appraisal...
Naturally, all ends well for all. The entire cast is tiptop, though when Hepburn smiles, audience eyes are bound to be glued to the sun goddess. The unlikeliest sight of all is the closing scene on the stage of Broadway's Ethel Barrymore Theater, when Katharine Hepburn "fakes" humility...
...rating that overseas borrowers still need to raise U.S. money easily, the issuer proudly lets the results be published; if not, it usually simply decides not to sell the bonds, and no one ever learns that it was investigated, let alone that its credit standing was considered less than tiptop. Many American investment institutions are banned by law from buying foreign bonds that are rated less than triple-A, and though Brazil and Mexico have sold bonds in the U.S. with no rating at all, they have had to pay higher interest...
...with premier and ministers in charge of administration, maintenance, security, information, leisure, domestic life and social and medical problems. They were also publishing a daily newspaper and had even devised a special postmark for their mail. Apparently they were working even harder than usual to keep the France in tiptop shape. But they rejected a call by Premier Jacques Chirac to end the strike and resume talks. "We've heard all that before," said a spokesman for the crew. "We'll stay where we are until the government turns serious...