Word: winner
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...very cultured writers," Guillen noted, pointing out that Fuentes is part of a "brilliant" group of contemporary Latin American writers including 1982 Nobel Prize winner Gabriel Garcia-Marquez. "He has a tremendously broad view of culture," Guillen added...
...only despaired losing but also began questioning his fundamental identity as an extraordinary athlete with dreams of a professional career. "Everyone gets so caught up in the specifies and appearances. If you lose, no one wants to hear what you have to say because you're not a winner. People look at you as if you're an entirely different person just because you lost...
...award, funded by a million-dollar bequest from the estate of Thomas T Hoopes '19, also grants $500 to each winner's faculty supervisor. Under the terms of the bequest, each year's prize-winners will receive at least $1000 each for general excellence in scholarly work. All but three awards this year went to senior theses...
...middle-of-the-night meeting that produced a winner's move. The day Congress rejected President Reagan's dense-pack basing proposal for the MX missile and withheld production funds for the weapon, Republican Senators William Cohen of Maine and Warren Rudman of New Hampshire huddled with White House Aide Kenneth Duberstein in a nocturnal conclave in Vice President Bush's Capitol Hill office to figure out what to do next. The Senators urged the Administration to appoint a high-powered bipartisan study commission. "The MX will never fly if it is a Republican missile," explained Cohen...
...weapons, but we had a camera, and we used that as a weapon," she said. "I guess they felt we could do them harm if our pictures were shown. The people were let go." Meanwhile, over at the Vassar campus in Poughkeepsie, N.Y., Alumna and two-time Academy Award-winner Meryl Streep, 34, gave the commencement address and credited her alma mater with instilling in her "a taste for excellence." But, she added in a cautionary note, "if you can live with the devil, Vassar has not sunk its teeth into you." He would have to catch up first...