Word: unbrokenness
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Thus ended Hawke's unbroken tenure of eight years and nine months at the % helm, the longest stint by a Labor Prime Minister. Although he was also the first Labor leader to be ousted while in office, Hawke, 62, bowed out graciously, pledging that he would "give Paul a hand...
...past two years French President FRANCOIS MITTERRAND, 74, has made an unbroken string of political blunders, and now people are beginning to question his ability to understand a rapidly changing international scene. His latest mistake: publicly concluding that Gennadi Yanayev and his co- conspirators were "the men in charge" and calling sanctions "premature." This follows Mitterrand's efforts to broker a peace plan just hours before the deadline for Iraq to withdraw from Kuwait, and his vain / attempt to halt German unification...
...Crimson's exploits during the search process may themselves have seemed unnecessary. But we have to ask ourselves: what would the presidential search have looked like had there been 10 months of unbroken secrecy? If the search committee had had its way, students and faculty may never have heard the name Neil Rudenstine until his selection of president was a done deal. There is little serious objection to Rudenstine's selection, but what if it had been President Leder? Or President Feldstein...
...though, are not intended to single our students for bashing. Would that the problem were so simple! No, there is something wrong with our educational philosophy, and that in turn, reflects something disjointed at the center of our culture. Maybe as a nation we are still too young (an unbroken chain of our bests writers from James Fenimore Cooper to James Baldwin had to repair to the "Old World" to survive...
Pucci owes his new fame to a revolution that began in the gym and on the jogging track. Gradually, the line between work-out gear and street clothes has blurred, and, as people gazed into the studio mirrors, they began to see that an unbroken silhouette looks longer and leaner than one cut up by a skirt...