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Word: tracing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...After the initial contact Bennett's office makes with the institution, the University sends development officials, Dean Rosovsky, or even Faculty members to meet with foundation members. Meanwhile, researchers continue to search for new prospects: "It's a constant culling process, a constant effort to update our information, to trace giving patterns and changing interests," Bennett says...

Author: By Nancy F. Bauer, | Title: Brother, Can You Spare a Dime... ...I Only Need $250 Million | 9/8/1980 | See Source »

...genuine one." Despite his carefully controlled veneer when discussing matters important to him, Allison is "in a fundamental way, a regular guy," according to Jackson. And his style has never been to shun controversy. In fact, he often seems to attract it, at times betraying more than a trace of bluster. If Allison displays many characteristics associated with the "consummate bureaucrat," he also has a streak of maverick individualism, sometimes, he concedes, to a fault...

Author: By Laurence S. Grafstein, | Title: King Of the K-School | 9/8/1980 | See Source »

...Great Heat Wave and Drought of 1980 abated slightly last week. Brief but welcome rain, ranging from a trace to a downpour, fell over the U.S. But the rains never came to central Texas, and for the past month, virtually no rain has fallen there, or in most of Oklahoma and parts of Arkansas and New Mexico. When the rains finally came down, so did temperatures that have been breaking records for weeks throughout the Midwest and South. In Dallas and Fort Worth two of the hardest-hit cities in the country, the temperature has hit 100° or more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: The Long Dry Summer | 8/4/1980 | See Source »

...dressed in rep tie and blazer, Bush is the very embodiment of the Eastern Republican Establishment that many of Reagan's rougher-hewn followers detest. Thirty-two years in Texas, where he made a fortune now estimated at more than $1.8 million in the oil business, have left no trace of the Sunbelt in his voice or manners. As a Congressman (1967-70) who later served brief terms as Ambassador to the U.N., chairman of the Republican National Committee, envoy to China and director of the CIA, he also is a member of the Washington Establishment to which Reagan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Not a Cross Word Between Us | 7/28/1980 | See Source »

...mind-boggling array of expensive protective instruments is now on the market, ranging from $375 bulletproof vests for executives conducting shareholders meetings to $16,000 electronic tracking systems that help trace a kidnap victim. A particularly nervous tycoon could buy from CCS Communication Control Inc. for $200,000 the security-studded 1979 silver-gray Cadillac that was once ordered by the Shah of Iran but never delivered. For $1,500 more, his chauffeur could take a four-day evasive-driving course in Summit Point, W. Va., that teaches high-speed handling and bootleg turns to escape terrorist blockades. The head...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Bombs in Books | 7/21/1980 | See Source »

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