Word: bolting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...landscape to where the air is sweeter, the food tastes better, the work seems less daunting, the alarm clocks are not pressing and the rooms are bathed in light. OK, perhaps some of these claims simply reflect the misty-eyed longings of a college student more than ready to bolt out of here for a week, but one thing is for certain--at home things look better because I have enough light to see them...
...panel included Lisa Drake, an environmental engineer; Penny Ellard '88, a project manager and software engineer at Bolt, Beranek and New-man, a computer technology firm; and Lorna Gibson, an MIT materials engineer professor...
...whose owners routinely hold up municipalities for new stadium deals--or bolt town in the middle of the night for more remunerative burgs--the $17.6 billion is just another example of its ability to play hardball. Each team will get a windfall of about $75 million a team per season, although much of that will go into players' salaries. After five years the NFL can renegotiate for even higher payoffs...
...photographer--certainly not by one of the 10 men now under investigation--nor do they seriously suspect that the driver was involved in a murder plot. But one of the reasons investigating magistrate Herve Stephan is so insistent on finding the driver, and completing a nut-by-bolt examination of the wrecked Mercedes, is to eliminate any possible suspicion of a conspiracy. Thus the search for the Uno continues...
...refugee herself, recalls their first meeting at a New Hampshire resort where they both worked in the summer of 1957--he as a busboy, she as a waitress. Eva recalls the encounter ("He had a bad accent, even though he doesn't think so!") as a lightning bolt: "I walked into this room, and there were a bunch of guys. One shook my hand, and it was, you know, like shaking a limp fish. But then there was this really good-looking guy who shook my hand, and I was just like, wow!" She still smiles at the memory, rolls...