Word: tripping
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...purchase gives GM direct access to some of the most advanced technology in American industry. Smith, who interrupted a European trip to return to the U.S. after his company was named the winning bidder, said GM will use Hughes' capabilities to help design and build cars. Added Smith at a news conference: "Electronics, we believe, is going to be the key to the 21st century." Products manufactured by Hughes, which no longer makes aircraft, range from microchips and lasers to communications satellites and air-to-air missiles. The California company is the largest supplier of electronic equipment to the military...
...Walker told me he had to be protected, that he feared for his life at all times. It was more than a little strange." After Barbara Walker's tip, the FBI secured court permits to tap Walker's telephones. On May 19, after hearing him talk about a special trip to Charlotte, N.C., agents watched his Chevrolet Astro van head north toward Potomac, Md., instead. According to trailing agents, Walker drove evasively, checking to see if he was being followed. He did in fact shake his pursuers for nearly three hours, but they luckily ran across him near Poolesville...
...been made part of the regular school curriculum. "We don't have all the answers," Shmueli says, "but let us discuss, scream, shout, and let us get to know each other." That has been precisely the effect of the civics program, as exemplified by a three-day trip last month by Arab students to the town of Sderot, where they stayed with Jewish families. "We feel comfortable enough with one another to speak openly," says Revital Levy, 17, about her new Arab friends. "I think that our changed attitude will filter down through the whole school." Hareven, for one, passionately...
...better player in Detroit and Baltimore, but he is a Celtic. Though Wayne Embry was just a momentary understudy for Bill Russell in Boston, it is as if he never cared about having started all those years in Cincinnati. Carr reasons, "Everybody in sports is on an ego trip to a certain degree. We all grew up being patted on the head and pampered and told how great we were. But when you get into that green shirt, even if you were a shooter, you become a passer...
Nadkarni calls the Classics program a "godsend," and teammates speak similarly of him. John D. Solomon '85, who jumped from the JV program to the Classics at the same time as Nadkarni, remembers that "he put together a trip to France in 10 days for 12 lunatics, dealt with the language barrier, and did a tremendous...