Word: walls
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...aristocratic Vice President would seem like an ideal target. Son of a Wall Street banker and U.S. Senator. Andover. Yale. Kennebunkport. What could be easier? But Bush reversed the normal equation. The man with four names jettisoned his g's, touted his taste for pork rinds and successfully put himself across as a regular guy. Bush persuaded voters to forget his background by pushing to the foreground the themes of cultural, not economic, populism: patriotism (the flag and the Pledge) and toughness on crime. His campaign has cynically mined the white fears and racism that feed this form of cultural...
...Near the Wailing Wall in the Old City. The Israelis demolished the house...
...firm of Kohlberg, Kravis, Roberts, until now the undisputed master of the leveraged buyout. On the other is an alliance between a group of RJR Nabisco executives and Shearson Lehman Hutton, an old-line investment firm determined to break KKR's dominance of the hottest, most lucrative business on Wall Street. If either side pulls off the deal, the course of U.S. corporate history could be changed forever...
...regulation, Harvard got on the scoreboard early in the first 10-minute overtime. Junior midfielder Paul Baverstock capitalized on a Crimson penalty kick to give Harvard a 1-0 lead at 91:02. Baverstock passed a free kick to senior Ramy Rajballie on the side of the Quaker defending wall, and a Penn defender dove on the ball before Rajballie could take the shot. Harvard was awarded the penalty kick on the foul...
...left [Shoenberg] because it became clear that I had no ability with harmony," the composer says. "I could not hear harmony like other composers. And so we had come up against a wall--we could not progress any further. But I said I would butt my head against the wall...