Word: walls
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Savoye attributed the application increase at Stanford to "three things: L. A. Law, [the Wall St. Crash on] October 19, and all of the interest in the Bork and Ginsburg trials...
Smith, acquired from the Chicago Cubs in December to be Boston's relief ace, quickly became familiar with Fenway Park and the left field wall when Trammell sent a 2-1 fastball into the screen...
Perhaps his most famous photograph shows three young paratroopers standing in front of Jerusalem's Western Wall shortly after the Old City was captured by Israeli troops in 1967. Rubinger has kept up with the trio; one is a gynecologist, another manages a folk-dance troupe and the third is a farmer. One of his most affecting shots depicts a boatload of exhilarated Moroccan Jews catching sight of Israel for the first time. "Photographs, like wine, improve with age," says Rubinger. "My favorites are the ones taken years ago that show human beings, having survived horrors, being remade into...
...Budget in 1981, he was taken "to the woodshed" by the President for publicly criticizing Reaganomics. Stockman admitted that he cooked the figures in the budgets he sent to Congress; his skill with numbers landed him a six-figure job as a managing director at Salomon Brothers, a Wall Street investment house...
Wednesday, 15--In response to concern among graduating seniors that the market's sustained downturn since Black Monday and deteriorating economic indicators will keep Wall Street firms from hiring in large numbers, President Bok issues an emergency Open Letter. "Somehow, Harvard men and women always manage to prevail," Bok writes. "Our alums at all the major brokerage houses tell me that their organizations will be able to find jobs for recipients of Harvard's great liberal arts education...