Word: strangers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...suspense of this momentous occasion has been killing me," confessed Prince Charles, as he addressed a crowd of 18,000 last week after waiting through 105 minutes of learned perorations celebrating Harvard University's 350th anniversary. Not that H.R.H. had any reason to worry. No stranger to pomp and circumstance, Charles (B.A., Cambridge, 1970) was resplendent in his academic gown. He scored high marks with self-deprecating quips ("Have no fear, ladies and gentlemen. I am used to being regarded as an anachronism") and a serious speech, which he wrote himself, on the dangers of allowing the teaching of technology...
...taken in the presence of a witness. How much more intrusive can it be, how much more unreasonable can a search be, how much more a violation of one's fundamental personal rights can it be than to be forced to urinate in the presence of some silent, bureaucratic stranger...
...mother, whose 36-year-old playwright son "disappeared" in 1976 because three years earlier he had sublet his apartment to a stranger who turned out to be an alleged guerrilla, wrote in her diary: "For a mother, hope never dies...No matter how tired and disappointed, the will to fight increases with every defeat...
...relations with the U.S. The Ethiopian people have no hatred toward any people, especially not toward the American people. The U.S. is no stranger to us. We still have full diplomatic relations, as well as trade relations. But from the onset of our revolutionary process, our relations have not been as they should be. Ethiopians had the basic right to fight oppression, to overthrow the monarchy. The fact that we exercised this right should not have irritated Washington. But we were denied aid that had been given previously. Just as we accept the social and political order...
...injection of outside investment. Many experts think the bank will struggle along without needing any bailout from the FDIC. A more likely possibility would be a merger with another bank, perhaps even with one of the Japanese institutions that have gained a foothold in California in recent years. "Stranger things have happened," says Chairman Leland Prussia. "If someone comes up with a good proposal, we would consider it seriously." Time could be running out for the bank's president and chief executive, Samuel | Armacost, who may be ousted if he fails to engineer a turnaround in the next year...