Word: touche
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...could afford to. He came from a well-to-do family, and his wife of 54 1/2 years, Phyllis, who died in June, was an heiress of the Standard Oil fortune. In addition to having a few silver spoons come his way, he had something of a Midas touch. He was a wunderkind of the investment-banking world in the 1930s -- "the last man hired on Wall Street before the Crash," he says with a wry smile -- and later helped develop the Aspen, Colo., resort where he plans to take some of his eleven grandchildren skiing in two weeks. (Nitze...
Take a few bong hits, they'll lighten your touch...
...King Richard II's effort to impose a per capita levy helped touch off the Peasants' Revolt. Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's version of the head tax may not inspire an uprising, but it certainly has angered a lot of Britons. Last week Parliament received Thatcher's plan, which would abolish property taxes on 18 million homeowners in England and Wales by 1994 and instead impose a fee ranging from $500 to $1,200 per person on 33 million adults. Thatcher seeks to raise some $12 billion in revenue for local governments, which currently receive most of their money from...
...foot bamboo poles. The poles served as extensions of self, with students learning new ways to move with the poles, as well as ways to switch them with partners. The class was "an exercise in concentration and awareness," according to Lodge. "Serban was trying to get us in touch with our instrument. I really learned a lot about myself in that class," he says...
...wanted to make the information easily available to students so that they could get in touch with the different campaigns," said SAC Chair Claire Fleming...