Word: acton
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...demands are even worse. During training, Wylie must travel 40 minutes each way to Acton, Mass. for practices that are often four hours long. In addition, the "Eat-To-Win" diet has proven difficult to keep up in the Eliot House dining hall...
...prime example of "greentailing," or riding the wave of the environmental movement. The eco-chain started life in 1973 as one small shop near the University of California, Berkeley, campus run by a pair of Peace Corps veterans. Today the Nature Co., owned by the CML Group of Acton, Mass., has 54 stores and is moving into Europe and Japan. Sales this year are expected to hit $90 million, up 29% from...
Personal background: Born in Bangor, Maine, William Sawyer now lives in Acton with his wife, Joan Gardner, and their three children. Sawyer received both his undergraduate and graduate degrees from Harvard University, and then, from 1955 to 1958, served in the U.S. Army in the judge advocate general corps, prosecuting and defending criminal matters...
Experience: Sawyer served as a selectman for the town of Acton from 1968 to 1975. He also served for 15 years on the Metropolitian Area Planning Council and was the Region One Director of the National Association of Regional Councils. He ran for U.S. Congress and lost in 1980. He is now a partner in the Boston law firm of Wood, Clarkin and Sawyer...
...special purposes. Richard Nixon welcomed Ceausescu's help in negotiating the first opening to China; under Ronald Reagan, the CIA sought Noriega's assistance in aiding Nicaragua's contras. But in Ceausescu's 24 years of iron rule and Noriega's six, both eventually proved once again Lord Acton's thesis that power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely...