Word: fooling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Corazon Cojuangco's wedding to Benigno Aquino Jr. in 1954, his best friend Salvador Laurel was part of the groom's entourage. When the widow Corazon Aquino ran for President against Ferdinand Marcos in 1986, Laurel stood as her Vice President. But don't let those ties fool you. Doy, as he is known to Filipinos, has chafed at being second best all these years, first to the charismatic Benigno and now to his wife. Accusing Cory of reneging on a promise to let him run the government once the two were elected, he bitterly broke off their alliance...
...bank's portfolio. Though Greenspan wrote to the board on Lincoln's behalf in February 1985, the board turned down the exemption request. But Government officials who let Keating keep control of the S & L still brandish the Greenspan study when they come under fire. If Keating could fool a man as smart as Greenspan, the argument goes, no wonder he could take in five Senators...
...wonderful performance, but in the sour view of many scientists, it is largely flimflam. To them, Rifkin is a Luddite, whose opposition to DNA research is based on skewed science and misplaced mystical zeal. Geneticist Norton Zinder of New York City's Rockefeller University calls him a "fool" and a "demagogue." In a scathing 1984 review of Algeny, one of Rifkin's nine books, Harvard's Stephen Jay Gould wrote that it was "a cleverly constructed tract of anti-intellectual propaganda masquerading as scholarship . . . I don't think I have ever read a shoddier work...
...Crimson owned the first period, but Gagnonhandled just about everything it gavehim--everything, that is, except for a fool's playand the quick stick of Ciavaglia. With 3:25remaining in the first, Ciavaglia teamed up withJohn Weisbrod on a two-on-one and sent a swiftshot into the open side of the net to give Harvarda 1-0 advantage...
...gotcha" goal came with seconds remainingin the period and the Crimson on the power play.Cleary pulled out his surprise final-secondface-off play to fool the Raiders. Ciavaglia,Harvard's face-off specialist, pushed the puck upto Captain C.J. Young. While an evidentlyinvisible Weisbrod set up, the Red Raider defenseset back, and Gagnon ended up swallowing hissecond puck on a Weisbrod stuff that sent theCrimson into the locker room with a two-goal edge...