Word: apartment
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...didn't fall apart," Wilmot said. "After losing the first Ivy (1-3, Cornell) we had to come through and we did. To beat the number 11 team in the country is huge...
...pieces also create an ensemble effect, the discarded yet pristine wreckage of objects waiting to be torn apart in the mind's eye by analysis. Otherwise, they sit, seemingly uncompleted, as if the artist still has to come back to the museum and finish up things whilst glancing at the plans on the walls...
...1950s, when Ben got his very first job working for his brother, building missiles. Their paths diverged when Ben went East to get an M.B.A. and Harold started building satellites on the Coast. For years they kept up a bicoastal relationship, says Ben, "the way families that live far apart usually see each other, on occasional visits." Now, after 40 years, they see each other all the time. Yet why, after such extraordinary careers, do they need the headache of a high-tech start-up? "We both like tilting against giants," says Ben. "When Harold started his satellite program...
...called my first doll Elizabeth, the quintessential American girl's name. Elizabeth was always my favorite name, the name I intended for my first child. We would call her Liza, though, to set her gently apart from the gaggle of Lizzies and Beths. But as I grow to understand my parents' reasoning in naming me, their logic makes more and more sense, and the chance that I would give my own child such a typical name fades...
...rushed to the CDC's complex in Atlanta, essentially the Pentagon of the nation's disease-fighting armies. Influenza work goes on in a place known as Building 7, but virtually every other disease organism is imprisoned and studied inside Building 15, a massive edifice that sits a bit apart from the other structures. It has only one entrance, monitored constantly by cameras and motion sensors. Its door opens only to those carrying specially authorized magnetic cards. There is reason for such caution: Building 15 houses the cdc's biohazard containment laboratories...