Word: atop
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Last week, as he looked out over Harvard Yard from atop the 20-foot high "Ivory Tower" erected to represent what activists call Harvard's isolation from the world, Damon A. Silver '86 blasted the University for its South African-related investments...
...visiting American Vice President George Bush, displayed the impressive might of a Saudi Arabian air force that has been largely trained and equipped by the U.S. Yet the show of strength was also a reminder of the dangers that confront Saudi Arabia, a fabulously wealthy kingdom that sits atop the largest proven oil reserves on earth. Faced with plunging revenues at home and increasingly ominous military threats abroad, the Saudis are passing through anxious times. Declared King Fahd ibn Abdul Aziz last month in a nationwide address: "We are surrounded by the most critical conditions we have ever faced...
...bust is especially hard on the brash boomtowns that flourished in the early 1980s, when energy prices were peaking. Six years ago, Evanston, Wyo., a dusty town (pop. 1,250) on the Utah border, was dubbed "Oil City, U.S.A." because of its strategic location atop the Overthrust Belt, then a choice location for petroleum exploration. Oil-rig workers earned upwards of $1,000 a week. Recalls Jerry Cazin, 77, who has owned the Cazin & Houtz hardware store in Evanston for 51 years: "People thought they were going to be in clover all their lives." Today the area's wells have...
...Harvey C. Mansfield, decked out in his self-propelling astronaut suit, lifts off from Baker Business Library and soars over to the light the Class Day torch atop Dillon Field House...
...baseball pitcher whom not even New York City can enlarge or exaggerate stands atop the hill and the heap at 21. Without counting the mound, which is also situated about ten inches above the rest of the field, Dwight Gooden in just two major league seasons has risen like an illusion of a fastball to a height somewhat loftier than 6 ft. 3 in., and a level nearly beyond imagination. When Sandy Koufax says, "I'd trade anyone's past for Gooden's future," that includes Walter Johnson's, Grover Cleveland Alexander's, Bob Feller...