Word: expressing
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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Most overseers, however, did not express doubts about the CCSR's compliance withHarvard policy...
...sure, the dollar signs are hard to miss in TV sports these days. One can see them in everything from Bo Jackson commercials for Nike footwear to the corporate logos attached to a growing number of major events (among the newest additions: the Mobil Cotton Bowl and the Federal Express Orange Bowl). "It used to be that sport was sport, and business was business," says Norman Chad, who writes about media for the sports daily the National. "Now sports is business. Something that was once sweet and in some ways idyllic now is in the mud with everything else...
...aware of how fast the end came last month for Drexel Burnham Lambert, wags at the brokerage firm of Shearson Lehman Hutton are in pretty grim humor these days. The latest joke making the rounds of the troubled American Express subsidiary: "What's the difference between Shearson and Drexel?" Answer: "About three months...
...American Express has tried for months to sell part of its 60% stake in the firm. The financial giant even talked with Sanford Weill, the former head of Shearson who sold the brokerage to American Express in 1981. Finally, with no buyers in sight, Chief Executive James Robinson announced last week that American Express would purchase the rest of Shearson from shareholders in a stock-swap deal valued at $350 million. The parent company plans to cut its losses by rapidly shrinking its subsidiary. Last week it began laying off 2,000 of Shearson's 35,500 employees...
Taken to the extreme, this principle can mean ignoring or overriding the patient's express wishes. When Dax Cowart was critically burned in a propane- gas explosion near Henderson, Texas, he begged a passing farmer for a gun with which to kill himself. On his way to the hospital, he pleaded with the medic to let him die. For weeks his life hung by a thread. For more than a year, against his will, he endured excruciating treatment: his right eye and several fingers were removed, his left eye was sewn shut. His pain and his protests were unrelenting...