Word: touche
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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There was one team, however, that Hunter couldn't touch. Ever, Year after year, the guys got really psyched, went in, held their own for a while, and then lost to the "B" varsity form Power Memorial High School. The joke always went around that the "A" varsity was playing at Madison Square Garden and couldn't play us, but the fact was, the Power folks were too nice to be realistic and send in their...
...Neill's golden touch has also helped Shannon gain a seat on the prestigious House Ways and Means Committee, an assignment supporters say he has handled like a congressional veteran...
...director of Fort Lauderdale's Main Library, put it, "People enjoy these seminars because they can hear authors discuss their feelings, what causes them to write." Or as Novelist Anne Bernays (The Address Book), who came from Boston to speak at lunch, said, "People think if they can touch and talk to an author, they will absorb the magic, be able to do it themselves. That's why they always ask technical questions like 'Do you use a pencil...
...Reagan of certain ideological tics: he now understands, for instance, that the International Monetary Fund is no mere Third World boondoggle. Yet his grasp of important issues is often shaky and, even more troubling, he seems unalarmed by those knowledge gaps. Says one top adviser: "Is he out of touch occasionally? Sure...
...compiled a distinguished record as president of the finance commission in the lower house of Parliament and served on the board of directors of a major Zurich retail chain. As the wife of a prominent Swiss psychiatrist and the mother of three adopted children from Madagascar, Uchtenhagen has a touch of the hausfrau that, it was thought, would make her acceptable to her male colleagues in government. Convinced that Uchtenhagen was well qualified for the job, the Social Democratic Party nominated her to fill a vacancy left when one of the two Social Democrats on the Federal Council resigned. Under...