Word: tiring
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...took two undergraduate degrees in a rigorous five-year program that had him enrolled in engineering courses at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and in liberal-arts studies at Washington & Jefferson College near Pittsburgh. Reed served in Korea as an Army Corps of Engineers officer, then briefly joined Goodyear Tire & Rubber as a trainee. In 1965 he earned a business degree from M. I. T. 's Sloan School of Management, signing on after graduation with Citicorp's predecessor, First National City Bank. Within five years, Reed found himself head of the bank's notoriously disorganized back-office operations, which were plagued...
...Celtics, playing without center Robert Parish, who was suspended for slugging Detroit's Bill Laimbeer in Game 5, and without Coach K.C. Jones, who was attending his mother's funeral in California, appeared to tire in the fourth period...
There were four of them last week from Capitol Hill gathered with Ronald Reagan in the morning brightness of the Oval Office. They were, in the distinctive patois of one participant, "trying to figure out how to keep the Democrats from wrapping a tire iron around our necks" during the budget struggle...
...took an editorial mop to the mess, scrubbing with strokes so rigorous that they laid tire tracks of emotional trauma across the metaphysical entity that served as a literary cipher for my soul...
Lisa Lisa and Cult Jam's Spanish Fly picks up where Janet left off. As listeners tire of the now overexposed and no longer progressive Jam/Lewis beat, Full Force has broken new ground on `urban' radio by surrounding Lisa Lisa with a clever, funky, and even historical mixture of all that's hot in Black music today. Lisa Lisa maintains Janet's rigid stance of female power in the midst of a musical melange of elements from 50s streetcorner doo-wop to hot Miami rhythms, with even a touch of gospel-style chorus tossed in for flavor...