Word: biggest
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...have been] in up to here with the planning. It's the biggest project any of us will ever be involved in," says Nancy M. Cline, Larsen librarian of Harvard College. "There are new construction projects here that would not impact as much...on the campus...
...Susan A. Lee, Cline's deputy in charge of planning and administration says the project is one of the biggest library renovation projects ever undertaken...
...They also looked to the experience at Langdell Library at Harvard Law School, which closed for a year while it was renovated earlier this decade. But because it shut down, Langdell offers few lessons for Harvard's biggest library, which has no plans to close and has exponentially more books than its law school counterpart...
...particularly name-brand stocks, have taken on the aura of a high-interest annuity, to the point that "conservative" moneymen like Warren Buffett bank on stocks with 30 and 40 price-to-earnings multiples, like Disney and Coke and Gillette. Being fully invested, once the province only of the biggest bozos and wild-eyed optimists, now seems to be the duty of every red-blooded American, no matter what age or income bracket. Even more amazing, there is a whole new class of equity holders that regards regard Buffet's buy-and-hold strategy as boring--too safe...
Ashton Robinson talks for a living--in infomercials, at seminars and on tapes that establish him as the biggest mouth in the self-help industry. But one day, while tripping out on weed and expired cough syrup, he is visited by a shape-shifting Brazilian midget who inspires him to found his own religion. The guru turns his California pad into a temple and teaches his followers to wear Gap clothing, bungee-jump and practice Tantric sex in preparation for their own "disappearance"--nirvana in Robinson's religion. The novel is a patchwork of clever ideas that never quite settle...