Word: makeing
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...credible threat to Saddam. "To convince Saddam Hussein that we are willing to use force...seems to be the only way to persuade him to leave Kuwait peacefully," the reader wrote in a letter published December 8. "Therefore...we should show full support for our present policies and make Saddam believe that we American people are united behind our president...
Those who want Americans to present a spurious unified voice in the Gulf crisis are suggesting that we handcuff our wrists to the rear-view mirror. This strategy may sound appealing until we realize that the slightest miscalculation of Saddam's aims could mean that we would have to make good on our threat in order to maintain our credibility...
Sometimes the mood is pugnacious. "He would make a good president [of Harvard], but we will fight you to keep him," quips Myrtle Scott, the president of the University of Indiana's faculty council. Indiana president Thomas Ehrlich '56 is a contender for the Harvard presidency...
...Some people on campus think that Freedman is trying to `intellectualize' Dartmouth and trying to make it another Harvard," says Karazin...
Even before his latest coup, he was regarded as the most powerful man in Hollywood. Michael Ovitz, the town's No. 1 talent agent, can make or break a movie project or an actor's career. But as the power broker behind Matsushita's acquisition of MCA, Ovitz has reached an international stature that even legendary moguls might envy. "He is the mega-dealmaker," says an industry executive. "Not only on a film-by-film basis, but on the very largest scale of buying and selling studios. That is the most significant thing you can do in Hollywood...