Word: touche
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Reagan has been as meticulous in his dress as he has been with his use of language. David Kennerly, White House photographer for Jerry Ford, spent a day shooting Reagan on the job. His viewfinder assessment of Reagan's bearing: "natural dignity." There is a touch of Hollywood, of course. Reagan's suits now and then get a little beyond the Brooks Brothers stripe, and he sometimes wears shoes with gold hardware. But blue jeans stay out there on the ranch in California...
There was also a touch of desperation on the part of the commercial creditors, who have little choice but to defer payment on the Polish notes now falling due. Poland has no substantial assets in the West that could be seized in the case of a default. Nor could the Soviets be counted on to pick up the tab. As one Parisian financier put it: "There are conditions under which the amounts involved become so considerable that the debtor actually holds the creditor in check...
...titles that have eluded them in Bernal's three years here. Last year the Princeton relay outdueled the Harvard squad by the barest of margins, and this year's seniors realize that they have never beaten the Tigers in a medley relay. Winning this race would be a nice touch for the careers of those who inaugurated the Harvard swimming dynasty three years ago. Eastern Champs -- 1980 Bobby Hackett 1650-yd. freestyle 15:14.95 Geoff Seelen 100-yd. backstroke 52.02 Ron Raikula 200-yd. backstroke 1:51.33 David Lundberg 100-yd. breaststroke 57.51 David Lundberg 200-yd. breaststroke...
Harvard's fight to evict tenants from an apartment building at 7 Sumner Rd. is finally drawing to a close, but a number of other University projects that touch on Cambridge are far from over--and some have been running battles for much longer than the two-year old Sumner Rd. affair...
...been in touch with both of them, and offered them other Harvard housing," Armistead said, adding that the University's current requests for eviction permits were "simply the administrative side of following through on the removal permit process...