Word: touche
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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There is perhaps a touch of the dilettante in a man who -- with his eager, miss nothing eyes framed by horn-rims and a shy smile centered above his bow tie -- still looks like a cartoonist's vision of the brightest boy in class. But the intellectual restlessness that has kept Schlesinger circling from academic pillars -- Harvard, City University of New York -- to government and journalistic posts may have brought forth a certain freewheeling agility in the essayist...
After divestment activists last week asked students to "reach out and touch the Harvard Corporation" to encourage them to hold an open meeting with the community, few students have contacted the members of the seven-man governing body...
HUPA also posted flyers around the concrete stadium and distributed leaflets bearing similar messages at a total cost of $300. "This is part of our continued campaign since the 350th celebration to reach out and touch the Harvard community and make them aware of our plight," Parenteau said...
...biggest uncertainty about Ford is what the encore to the Taurus and Sable breakthrough will be. While those cars were conceived during Ford's risk-taking days, the profitable company could conceivably lose its daring touch. The pressure will increase as Ford's aerodynamic styling becomes more widely copied and thus less distinctive. Before long, Ford will have to come up with a suitably dramatic successor to the Tempo and Topaz, which have already started to look a bit stale in comparison with their sleeker cousins, the Taurus and Sable...
...overall retail sales are up 10%, and bank deposits have leaped 198% in five years -- a cash transfusion that Customs officials attribute to the dope flow. The new money, concedes Mayor Jose Saenz of Roma-Los Saenz, a border town of 3,700, "indirectly benefits us all." That touch of prosperity, according to Customs Agent D'Wayne Jernigan, has "created a wall of reluctance to cooperate." Agrees local Chemist Benito Trevino: "There's no outcry because people see the potential for making money...