Word: boarding
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...There should be no doubt in the minds of students or the members of the administrative board that selling notes is absolutely unacceptable to this Faculty," said Secretary of the Faculty John...
...shook her head. "They're all right in the winter but not so great right now." It was a warm, humid afternoon. "You sweat. There's no way you could wear make-up in here. And back then when I started, we didn't use IDs. There was a board with kids' names on it. It was huge." She gestures with her hands to indicate that it was more than four feet wide. "The board was a grid with everyone's name on it, crossed with each meal. Every five days we switched sides of the board. When someone showed...
...Today, like every day, a woman and her toddler girl board me at the stop just past The Plough and the Stars. Today, like every day, all of the other passengers smile and coo as the pair finds a seat. The woman is pretty--fine-featured and petite; the daughter she carries mirrors her. I'm rolling along, enjoying this joyful maternal scene as much as the passengers, when they hit me: the shoes. The little girl wears pink suede Mary Janes with the red, green, yellow and purple images of ALL FOUR Teletubbies emblazoned on the toe. No! Their...
Sometimes, even budget talks can be exciting. On Wednesday, one sticking point in a last-minute standoff was resolved when President Clinton accepted an across-the-board spending cut of .38 percent. House Republicans, stung by the widely-held belief that they've given ground on nearly every big budget issue - and that Bill Clinton is once again being declared the victor - were holding out for an across-the-board spending cut of .42 percent, or about $1.5 billion. And since he recently rejected a more substantial one-percent cut, it was unclear whether President Clinton would be willing...
...visiting the U.S. to drum up business for what they called the world's smallest web server. They don't have a booth, but the company's founder pulled a half-sized business card from his pocket to show me an actual-size photo of a three-chip board that -- they hope -- will put humble devices from security cameras to battery back-up systems to toasters on the Internet...