Word: atop
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Want to fit in? Wear a tux. Want to hold your head high? Tie a piece of black silk under your Adam's apple. (Clip-ons are permissible -- if not entirely excusable -- only for maitre d's at restaurants that revolve atop the city's tallest building.) Want to -- be honest, now -- leave the party with some new company? Go in grosgrain...
...many of them, including Mount Everest, were conquered by mountaineers who fudged a little: they used bottled air. No one had ever conquered all 14 -- much less without oxygen -- until last week, when Reinhold Messner, 42, a brash, blond-bearded native of Italy's South Tirol, stood triumphantly atop Lhotse, the world's fourth highest mountain. Having conquered 13 other eight-thousanders in the past 16 years, all without oxygen, Messner had completed mountaineering's grand slam...
...sanity come finals. I, for one, will sorely miss lunching in the Busch-Reisinger's sunny courtyard, attending organ recitals in Kuhn Hall, and dropping in to peruse the gallery on a rainy afternoon. If the administration needs more office space, why not lump a few more concrete slabs atop the Holyoke Center--surely no one would object on aesthetic grounds; but why not keep the Busch-Reisinger what it is: a unique and personable oasis in the heart of what can be a rather chilly institution. C.W. Putney
Within days, the intense Lorenzo celebrated a second coup. The U.S. Department of Transportation announced that it would give tentative approval to Texas Air's $600 million purchase of Eastern Air Lines, an agreement first struck last February. Piled atop the planned acquisition of People Express and Frontier, the Eastern deal confirms that Texas Air is about to become the country's No. 1 passenger airline, with 20.1% of the domestic market, passing former leader United...
...beleaguered U.S. space community enjoyed a boost to its morale last week. First a weather satellite was launched without a hitch atop a refurbished 25- year-old Atlas-E rocket. Then an MX Peacekeeper test missile, lofted into space from Vandenberg Air Force Base, neatly deployed its six dummy warheads 4,200 miles downrange in the southern Pacific, the 14th straight success for the program...