Word: helms
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Free Press, with my brother at the helm, rode the ups and downs of the postwar world. For a while it looked as if Greenfield would grow dramatically. New houses went up by the score. Cattle and hog prices climbed. Grain prices soared as a hungry world sought aid. Chemical fertilizers hyped the yields. New machines snorted through the thick fields. Norman Lear, the movie producer, came around in 1969 to use the Greenfield square as a setting for his film Cold Turkey. The Free Press went Hollywood with relish, interviewing Bob Newhart, Dick Van Dyke and Tom Poston. That...
...midway through the decade General Manager Frank Cashen got serious. Suddenly, the Mets were trading for honest-to-goodness superstars like Keith Hernandez and Gary Carter, and drafting superstars-to-be-in-a-hurry, Dwight Gooden and Darryl Strawberry. With a new manager, Davey Johnson, at the helm, the Amazins vaulted into contention...
Maryland observers said that O'Malley's aggressive style had put him at the helm of Maryland's drive to reorganize its higher education system. But his hard-ball political style had also led to his demise, they said...
...thing for Gibbs to tell Washington-area television viewers that football was not number one in his life, and that God was. (A little perspective never hurts.) But to use his position at the helm of the Redskins to espouse a certain religion and sell religious books? Who did he think...
Hudson Professor of Archaeology Kwang-chih Chang is offering a new Historical Study B course on "Complex Society in Ancient China. And Ford Foundation Professor of International Security Joseph S. Nye, Jr. is once again at the helm of Historical Study A-12, "International Conflicts...