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Word: topper (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...battle lines on the repeal are not traditional, nor do they follow party lines. Although SET is masterminded by the conservative wing of the Republican Party and has some major business support from the likes of J. Ray Topper, president of Anchor Hocking, and W.R. Timken Jr. of Timken Co., it is also supported by the rank-and-file members of some labor unions. Leading the opposition is John Mahaney, the Republican president of the Ohio Council of Retail Merchants, who counts the Ohio Education Association and the state AFL-CIO on his side and who hopes to raise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Altered States | 9/12/1983 | See Source »

Short untied Northeastern University Law School in 1973 and went on to practice law with two firms. At the time of his death, he was with the firm of Dudley, Dudley and Topper in St. Thomas, Virgin Islands...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Friends Eulogize John G. Short '70 | 4/9/1983 | See Source »

...time. It's back this semester after a year in dry dock. Other favorites include: Fine Arts 175a ("Bricks for Dicks") and Literature and Arts C-14. "The Concept of the Hero in Hellenic Civilization," ("Heroes for Zeroes"). What promises to be this year's recording-breaking chart-topper among new offerings, philosopher Robert Nozick's Phil 25, "The Best Things in Life," hasn't yet acquired an official yuck-it-up title. "Pleasure" and "Ice Cream" are top contenders...

Author: By Paul M. Barrett, | Title: Harvard Thick and Thin | 8/13/1982 | See Source »

...over the air waves on March 8 with a scenario jerry-built by 100 Stars Writer-Producer Hildy Parks, who with Husband Alexander Cohen conspires yearly to mount TV's Tony Awards show. Viewers delirious to watch Al Pacino, Leonard Nimoy and 34 others don white tie, topper and tails and kick a leg with the Rockettes will have to see them through the eyes of a young Rockette, sidelined by a twisted ankle, as she is comforted by an aged stagehand while the show goes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Daze of the Locust | 3/1/1982 | See Source »

...Strummer, Mick Jones, Paul Simonon, and Topper Headon are shown living their day-to-day lives, doing things like standing trial for shooting pet pigeons and discussing the Red Brigade ("It's a pizza parlor, isn't it?"), while their fictitious counterpart, played by Ray Grange, wanders from concert to concert, drinking heavily and prying comment from the band. More than once, it seems that the filmmakers have intruded upon Clash concerts in order to beef up the action in the film, including the taunting of an unruly Rock Against Racism crowd. Late into the rambling film, a racial element...

Author: By Gregory Springer, | Title: Punk Flicks (Old Tricks) | 10/16/1980 | See Source »

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