Word: doctorate
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...clients order by telephone from the menu of one of the 30 restaurants on its list. About an hour later, a tuxedo-clad waiter appears, bearing large shopping bags full of plastic containers and a bill -- usually well over $100 -- payable by credit card. "I'm known as the doctor of delivery," declares David Blum, 31, the entrepreneur who started Dial-A-Dinner 18 months ago. Now he has 22 people, 15 cars and six vans, all radio equipped, hurtling about 200 dinners a night across Manhattan. Among Blum's culinary suppliers are Petrossian Paris, the famous caviar emporium...
Harvard men's soccer Coach Mike Getman had to enjoy the action on Steinbrenner Field Wednesday, but the news from the doctor's office was not so good...
...instead of wondering what Abbruzzese and Johnson would do this year, the Columbia fan has other questions to ask. Like, what's the doctor saying these days...
...Czechs then withdrew to another room to decide their course. The documents had already been laid out for them to sign, and Goring and Ribbentrop pursued them around the table, pushing documents and pens at them. Hacha fainted dead away. Hitler's personal doctor came and gave him an injection, and just before 4 a.m. he recovered sufficiently to sign away his country. The western provinces of Bohemia and Moravia became a German "protectorate"; Slovakia was granted a shadowy "independence...
Born in 1928 into a doctor's family, Doi belongs to the country's minuscule but politically active Protestant minority. "Originally, I wanted to be a doctor too," says Doi. "My parents were in favor of the idea that girls should study and try to be independent like men." Eventually, after studying English at a women's college, Doi chose instead to take law at Doshisha University, where she saw a movie about the young Abraham Lincoln. "I will have to be like Lincoln," she recalls thinking to herself. "A supporter of the weak...