Word: bottoms
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...study. With great cunning, my parents waited until my junior year before they erased all vestiges of my memory. They packed away my weight set, tore down the basketball net and worst of all, gave my NFL bedsheets to charity. My pennants lay in a forlorn pile at the bottom of my closet. In their place, my father's diplomas hange with mocking pride. His desk rests serenely where I used to shoot Nerf hoops. My bed, remade and reeducated, is now his couch. It's not that I wanted a mausoleum, but did they have to paint over...
With Harvard up, 6-1, at the 8:10 mark of the final period, MacDonald took a Bourbeau pass at a tough angle on the bottom right circle and found the far corner of the net. Bourbeau and Peter Ciavaglia fed MacDonald's next goal on the power play, and junior C.J. Young teamed up with MacDonald on a two-on-one to seal the hat trick...
Cheever regularly threw away sentences that lesser talents might have hoarded, had they been capable of writing them at all. As a first-time parent, he confided, "Sending a child off to nursery school is like sending your bottom drawer off to the board of health." He could mock others, wickedly: "Edmund Wilson has printed a collection of questionable short stories and in one there is a long description of carnal copulation which would have done carnal copulation irreparable damage if it hadn't been quite as deeply rooted." And he could make fun of himself, including his diminutive...
...part of these expanding enterprises, editors are increasingly being evaluated not only on the number of Pulitzers their papers win but also on their ability to produce maximum profits. At some of the country's larger newspaper chains, editors' year-end bonuses are linked, in part, to the bottom line. Sometimes the economic pressures from the business side have a direct bearing on editorial decisions. A publisher seeking "upscale" advertising and readers may apply pressure for upscale stories, says Burgin of the Houston Post. "You write about the chic and the trendy and the jet-setters...
...just want to concern myself with what's happening; you worry about making money' -- that editor doesn't last long." On the other hand, it is important for publishers to realize that quality and integrity are in themselves good investments, even if they sometimes hurt the short-term bottom line. "If the measuring stick is only profit," says Burl Osborne, who < is both editor and president of the Dallas Morning News, "you can't have a great newspaper...