Word: avon
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...Times covered their every move. Presidents, the real ones, sought their counsel. For Woodrow Wilson and Dwight Eisenhower, being head of Princeton and Columbia, respectively, was a stepping-stone to the White House. Today, though, the job of college president is less and less removed from that of the Avon lady (except the house calls are made to the doorsteps of wealthy alums...
While the National struggles to satisfy its critics and find new audiences, British theater?s other flagship is planning some modernizations of its own. The 41-year-old Royal Shakespeare Company, currently in dual residency at Stratford-Upon-Avon and London?s Barbican Centre, has announced an ambitious agenda of relocation and innovation for the coming year...
...volunteers who come to the rescue. Women on both sides have taken up a common crusade known as promotoras. With help from government agencies like Mexico's Health and Development Federation, they are creating community banks and lending trees for small businesses; they circulate in poor neighborhoods like Avon ladies, teaching health care and selling condoms; they even dig trenches for colonia septic systems...
...Loretta Cosman and Marcy Phalen of Beecher, Ill. A rare snowstorm greeted the sisters on their first night, and a visit to Oxford the next day had to be scrubbed when their tour bus got stuck in traffic for three hours. By the time they got to Stratford-upon-Avon, it was too dark to see. So at the urging of others, the pair decided to take a guided walking tour of Westminster and London's West...
...underwent quadruple-bypass surgery. Last summer I had a second bypass plus a valve job. I have fantasized about Kim Basinger for years. However, now I am overwhelmed by an inordinate desire to sing in French and solve quadratic equations. Could this be due to cognitive decline? LARRY VERGA Avon Lake, Ohio...