Word: idealize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...rule, launderers have created front companies or collaborated with employees of such outlets as 7 Elevens and Computer-Land stores. To drug dealers, "an exempt rating is like gold," says a Wells Fargo Bank vice president. A restaurant that accepts no checks or credit cards can be an ideal laundering machine. Even a front business with no exemption is valuable because launderers can file the CTRs in the knowledge that they are unlikely to attract scrutiny, since the Government is swamped with 7 million such reports a year, up from fewer than 100,000 a decade ago. Other places where...
...Harper's Bazaar named her one of their eight "Over-40 and Sensational" women last summer, and she is a stunning refutation of the cliche of the dowdy feminist. In an era when nonprofit organizations seek out celebrity spokespeople to get their message across, she is the public relations ideal, a spokeswoman who has become a celebrity...
...think it's extraordinary," White says. "Harvard and MIT undergraduates are ideal. They are at just the right age to work with high school students. The kind of student at Harvard and MIT has a good understanding of the learning process. There is no question in our minds that the quality of the students there is excellent...
...admits that Eliot believed in the idea of cultural uniformity and that he felt "some Jews" fought counter to this ideal. But she also defends the expatriate poet as "anti a great many things" and for whom, she says, Jews were not particularly important as an object of scorn...
...image is arresting, perhaps too much so: a white hand and a black hand, both denim-clad and handcuffed together at the wrists. For Italy's Benetton, the ubiquitous purveyor of knitwear, the photo seemed ideal for its long- running ad campaign stressing harmony among the races. Ironically, the giant retailer now finds itself accused of racism. "Handcuffs do not convey brotherhood," says Donald Polk, president of the New York Urban League, which has been flooded with complaints about the ad from those who feel it depicts a black man under arrest. Says Vittorio Rava, Benetton's worldwide advertising head...