Word: warms
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Have you ever been to a Valium picnic? Or been guilty of scoodling? Or yearned for warm fuzzies? If those terms are totally bewildering, you may want to take a crash course in "biz speak," the increasingly colorful, and sometimes off-color, language of the business world. The vivid vocabulary that bounces around corporate corridors has been collected and codified by Journalist Rachel S. Epstein and Nina Liebman, an industrial-development specialist for the New York State department of commerce, in their new book Biz Speak: A Dictionary of Business Terms, Slang and Jargon (Franklin Watts; $17.95). This handy compendium...
...NORTHERN IRELAND on a beautiful summer's day, Brian Friel's Lovers gives a warm (and loving) glance at two 17-year-old fiances. Sitting on a hill overlooking their town, Mag (Sarah Jane Cohen) and Joe (Aaron Carlos) try to study for final exams but mainly dream of their future together. Before long, Friel introduces a tragic twist: the couple will die in a boating accident before the afternoon is over...
...Wednesday morning. It was from the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, saying he had won the Nobel Prize. But no, they had the wrong number. Then a radio station telephoned to congratulate Georgene Herschbach, a Harvard assistant dean. This was a mistake too, but at least the station was warm: she ran across the campus to her husband's office. So it was that Dudley R. Herschbach, 54, learned he would share this year's chemistry prize with his onetime collaborator, Yuan T. Lee, 49, of the University of California, Berkeley, and with John C. Polanyi, 57, a University...
...complement the reduction in games, the season should also start earlier--in earliest April, with all games for the first two weeks played in warm-weather or domed sites...
...then rejected because of President Ronald Reagan's refusal to agree to ban testing and development of his Strategic Defense Initiative weapons system came as an enormous disappointment for those of us who were following the proceedings. To see President Reagan and General Secretary Mikhail S. Gorbachev so warm and cordial with one another at lunch, and so dejected and grim-faced only a few hours later, reflected their, as well as our, sorrow at what almost had been in our grasp...