Word: touche
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Five Harvard hockey players broke the 50-point barrier this season, but Peter Ciavaglia--The Crimson's Sophomore Athlete of the Year--was the man with the golden touch...
...manage to find some other seniors and can raise your voice above the din, senior bars can be a good opportunity to see once more those friends that you know you'll lose touch with after Commencement. The problem is that conversation inevitably reduces to The Question. Sometimes I wish I could make things easier and less painful by saying, OK, let's go around the room. What are you doing next year...
...strain of talk radio, Nader maintains approvingly, "is the working people's medium. There's no ticket of admission. You only have to dial." Congressman Chester Atkins, a Massachusetts Democrat who was a chief target of pay-raise opponents, gamely praises the format as well. "Talk radio is in touch with the anger and hostility and frustrations that people feel with respect to government in their daily lives," he says...
Then there are the tourists. "The pyramids," laments Hawass, "are the only monuments in the world where you can drive up and park your car. Even in Disneyland you have to park a mile away." Last year alone 1,969,493 visitors came to look at -- and touch and breathe on -- Egypt's treasures. Just six people breathing inside a tomb for an hour can raise the humidity by 5 percentage points. And higher humidity provides a hospitable environment for bacteria, algae and fungi that grow on paintings. Sighs Hassan: "Three thousand people a day visit King Tut's tomb...
Three times a month, usually on a Friday afternoon or Saturday, Shevardnadze gathers with the 29-member Foreign Ministry collegium, an informal council composed of senior Foreign Ministry officials and invited guests. The four- to five-hour sessions touch on issues ranging from ambassadorial appointments to terrorism. "You can speak your opinion now and be certain it will be heard," says Deputy Minister Anatoli Adamishin. "Even my subordinates can express disagreement with my views. In fact, criticism is better received than words of praise." Unlike James Baker, Shevardnadze does not shun career officials in favor of a small clutch...