Word: birching
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...companies started by M.I.T. graduates easily reaches 1,000. Today, M.I.T.'s artificial intelligence laboratory is considered the prime incubator for this new technology, which economists estimate will become a billion-dollar industry by the end of the decade. "The selling of our wits," as M.I.T. Industrial Expert David Birch calls it, is a Massachusetts growth industry...
...club you never knew when somebody would tap you on the shoulder and ask you to dance," recalls Sweeney, 32. Rather than stop exercising, he sank $40,000 into the unfinished basement of his Rockville, Md., home. Dubbed Sweeney's Cave, it is now paneled in pale birch, carpeted in light blue and crammed with gym equipment. Among its features: a bench press, an arm-curling machine, lower-back- and leg-strengthening devices and a chest builder. Sweeney, who is the owner of an auto-painting and body shop, boasts, "Nobody has a gym like mine...
...Adolfo Birch. Soph., Nashville, Tennessee. Very interested in improvement. Constantly requests progress reports. Also believes himself to be the only Houston Rockets fan at Harvard...
...stop at the company gates. Coors chairman and chief executive officer William Coors has suggested that Blacks have demonstrated "a lack of intellectual capacity." Coors president Joseph Coors has helped establish and continues to support and fund a variety of ultra right-wing organizations including, among others, the John Birch Society. He has supported the Reagan administration's anti-environment policies. He has funded the Heritage Foundation, which has opposed student aid programs, social security, and many other social programs. Coors also opposed the distribution of family planning information at the University of Colorado while...
...response to Stanford was forceful. He threatened to publish a brochure which would offer students interested in Religious Studies the use of Harvard's Gutenberg Bible, a Rembrandt for Fine Arts specialists' rooms, and for American History student outings, the original Lewis and Clark birch bark canoe...