Word: slighted
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...grabbing ways have won him few friends on Wall Street and none at all on the Securities and Exchange Commission, which has charged that in effect the company's board of directors amounts to little more than a rubber stamp for the chairman. So far, there is slight reason to believe that Abboud's arrival will change Occidental's one-man-band character very much...
True enough, so far. The N.Y.Y.C. selectors are supposed to choose the most able defender, regardless of record. So it is conceivable that Turner could catch the committee's eye with a last-minute flourish. Three years ago he entered the final round with only a slight edge in victories, then reeled off ten wins in eleven races. "The big-money boys in the club are all behind Dennis," says Turner, "but the selection committee is absolutely neutral." Just thinking about the final round puts Terrible Ted in a combative mood. Says he: "It would take an absolute miracle...
...with an array of modish accouterments undreamed of by Schoenberg, including Visa cards and telephones with TV monitors; Maxine Willi Klein's sleek set looks like a sci-fi Better Homes and Gardens; and the cast, especially Soprano Mary Shearer as the wife, delivers a slyly spirited performance. Slight as it is, this is the kind of production that Schoenberg's reputation could use more of. Even the sort of people who only played tennis with him could warm...
Willard M. Chandler, a staff assistant in the Office of Fiscal Services, said a memo from his superiors declaring that shorts are inappropriate for office wear was a personal slight...
...jumble of scraps and remnants: a portion of Jarrell's master's thesis on A.E. Housman, articles on music, painting and sports cars, a touching tribute to War Correspondent Ernie Pyle, dozens of poetry and fiction reviews and a few pieces from Supermarket, now out of print. Slight as it is, the book still soars above the kind of contemporary criticism that, as Jarrell said, could have been written by "a syndicate of encyclopedias for an audience of International Business Machines...