Word: touche
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...shareholders are led by Jerry Finkelstein, 66. He runs Struthers Wells Corp., a maker of power-plant equipment, and publishes the New York Law Journal. The dissidents claimed that Black had not set foot in his office for a year and had admitted he kept in touch with Chock Full through his wife. They said he had not attended a directors' meeting since August 1981, and knew the names of only four of his fellow directors. They charged also that Chock Full's president, Leon Pordy, Black's cardiologist, still ran a Park Avenue practice...
...year-old Westport, Conn., salad-dressing manufacturer find satisfaction as a hotshot race-car driver, successful political activist, prizewinning movie director, solid-state sex symbol, show-biz iconoclast and possibly the most commanding male presence in films during the past three decades? If that sounds just a touch overheated, never fear. We have Paul Newman to play the lead...
Some families keep in touch with their students beyond the freshman year. According to Blackett, "Last year's student gave advice to this year's It's like a big brother situation...
Associate Professor of Economics and Population Rober C. Repetto would probably agree with Maier. "Running is better than nothing, but basically it's boring." He prefers touch football, tennis, squash, skiing--and especially basketball. "I love it. I was captain of the basketball team as an undergraduate, and now they can't get me out of the IAB. It's competitive, it's a team sport, it's everything great. I had to give it up for a couple of years when I was in Bangladesh, though. They're all so teeny, it was unfair...
While experts agree that de la Madrid's exhaustive campaign did much to dispel his image as a U.S. educated technocrat not fully in touch with popular concerns, they say much of the Mexican Left continues to be skeptical of his commitment to the economic populism that is so central to the nation's political culture...