Word: vesting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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South Carolina's Democratic Senator Ernest Hollings outlined his comprehensive alternative proposals in a letter to the President last week. Hollings later told a news conference: "He ought to understand that this is not a poker game with cards played close to the vest." The implied plea, that Reagan should end the uncertainty by showing all his cards now, ignores an even more worrisome possibility: all his cards may already be on the table...
...from a zebra-striped bathing suit and chino walking shorts to a slinky, maroon silk one-shoulder gown and a black crepe cocktail dress. Davida Levy of Miami's Main Event even sells something called the "executive dress," which may be worn with a jacket and a reversible vest for an approximation of the three-piece look. Since maternity customers are often older, with jobs of their own and a certain amount of flexible income, they can manage triple-figure price tags with a minimum of fuss. Indeed, retail prices of maternity clothes have more than doubled...
...High jump: 1. Saunders (BU) 7-1, 2. HAgle, (BU) 0-0, 3. Hopkins *(NU) 0-0, 4. Sutherland (Tufts) and Colfrey (BC) 0-7. Pole vault: 1 Poullon (Tufts) 15-2. 2. Yates (NU) 14-4, 3. Hutchinson (NU) 14-6. 4 Randall 144 S. Vest...
...away. Rolf has another son named Holger by former wife Veronica, a radical who is raising the boy in the Middle East and/or Turkey where she lives underground with a lover, whose wardrobe includes an exploding vest. Herbert, Fritz Tolm's other son, also belongs to an "alternate society." A married daughter, Sabine, is not politically inclined, though she has taken a compromising position with Hendler, her security guard, and is expecting his child. By fast count the novel contains over 70 other characters engaged in various plays, stances, conspiracies and love affairs both hetero-and homosexual...
Whatever the value, the attitude today is "If you've got it, don't flaunt it." A key is rarely sported on a vest chain or dangled haughtily over a decolletage. Says Delgrosso: "You see it at law school and medical school interviews. After that it goes back in the drawer." All perfectly fitting, suggests Harvard's John Finley, Eliot Professor of Greek Literature Emeritus. The key is not for success, he says. "It is for vision, the The founder, John Heath quest for understanding...