Word: boated
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Radcliffe's heavyweight varsity A boat place second, six seconds behind Northeastern, while the first novice boat finished first in its race...
...Deck: at the Edgartown Yacht Club," a crowd of upper-crust men and women schmooze on a boat. Men in sunglasses drink and chat and look vacant. Women sit clustered around a table in the foreground; their circle, like their lifestyle, is closed...
...aims at giving all those of socio-economically deprived, underprivileged, or educationally less rigorous backgrounds the equal opportunity to succeed. That goes for poor African-Americans from Watts or Brownsville; but it should also apply to destitute whites from bankrupt mining communties in rural West Virginia; Vietnamese boat people; inner-city Koreans; Chinese political refugees and any other group whose social and economic backgrounds deprive them of the same opportunities as the sons and daughters of Exeter or Andover...
...market made me scared," I replied. "It's going down big." "Hah," she said. "That's the signal I need. When bulls like you run scared, I want to load the boat up. Everybody will be real negative by the end of the day, setting us up for a terrific snapback rally." Moment of hope. "When?" I said, hoping that my wife, known as the Trading Goddess (for her prescient days as a head trader), would give me a buy signal. "Now? Soon? What time?" The Trading Goddess spoke softly. "I will let you know. But it will come today...
...intensity Gehry can give to a vertical space also transfers to the horizontal ones. The biggest gallery, known as "the Boat," is 1 1/4 times the length of a football field (450 ft.), but with its curved walls and round ceiling trusses, it hasn't a foot of dull space in it. There are a few things in the design that seem arbitrary or merely rhetorical. The towering "parasol" that Gehry put over the river entrance is pointless except as a visual element--its roof is too high to give any protection from the weather. And the twin stone-veneer...