Word: woo
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...dictator's toxic phantom pervades the book, which is the literary incarnation of Sinyavsky's public and private life. He admits that in 1948 he was asked by agents of the KGB to woo a fellow student, the daughter of a French naval attache. He complied without knowing their purpose or even the extent of his own motives. Years later, Sinyavsky put the intrigue to good use by enlisting the Frenchwoman to help smuggle his writings to the West...
...copies and soared to the top of the best-seller lists. Yet if Novak went with a winner, so did Reagan. Novak, 41, came to the collaboration with credentials of his own. He is the golden mouthpiece of the nation's celebrities, a literary John Alden who can consistently woo -- and win -- the public in their behalf. In 1984 Iacocca, Novak's collaboration with auto executive Lee Iacocca, jolted the publishing world by selling 2.7 million copies. He followed that up with best sellers on Tip O'Neill and Sydney Biddle Barrows, the deb-styled Mayflower Madam. Paid a paltry...
Even worse, some residents say, 1-2-3 will allow real estate investors to wield greater financial influence, forcing low-income earners out of the apartments so they can woo wealthy potential buyers...
...have a team I can love and cherish and call my own. Someone with a dolphin on his head gleefully ran into the newsroom last week yelling, "Woo, Miami! Woo! Woo!" My envy with his joy and affinity for his beloved squad was equalled only by my fashionable disdain for his Howard Johnson-esque orange hat with a blue dolphin jutting...
College administrators vehemently reject that accusation. Increasing tuition charges, they say, merely reflect their own increasing expenses. In particular, they cite soaring costs for building construction and maintenance; salary-inflating battles to woo and keep top-flight faculty members, especially in science and business; and the dizzying price of keeping up with technology, ranging from computerized card catalogs to the latest in lab paraphernalia. Hardware and faculty often go hand in hand: when Duke lured physicist John Madey away from Stanford, it promised to build a lab for his free-electron laser research. Cost: $5 million...