Word: brasses
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...their No. 1 concern and that they were to cut other programs to ensure it be kept up," an Administration official fumes. "Do you think it's a coincidence that only days after the Republicans take over, the Army finds out how much they're hurting?" Army brass emphatically denies that's the case. "We simply ran out of money because of Haiti, Kuwait and Rwanda," insists a Pentagon official...
...devote an entire section to them. Star Trek is seen around the world in 75 countries, and Trek mania has hit many of them; the official Star Trek fan club in Britain has 18,000 members. Trek-related merchandise, ranging from T shirts and backpacks to a $2,200 brass replica of the Enterprise, has exploded in the past five years, with total revenues topping $1 billion. More than 63 million Star Trek books are in print, and new titles -- from tell-alls by former cast members to novelizations of Trek episodes -- are appearing at the rate of more than...
...clarinets, twined in thirds, that recalls Wagner, and along the way there are echoes of Debussy and Mahler as well. Albert reveled in his compositional heritage; what a pleasure it is to hear a work end as confidently as this one does, in an optimistic blaze of surging brass, fortississimo...
...task force, first chaired by Green and then by Vice President for Administration Sally H. Zeckhauser, consisted of 10 highly-placed administrators. With the help of consulting firm Towers Perrin, the committee spent nearly a year evaluating the University's benefits structure, periodically updating the University's top brass...
...many ways, it is Halloween at the Mutter every day. The first-time visitor is confronted by macabre marvels: monstrously misshapen skulls and skeletons, fetal remains of offspring that could never be human, shadowy effigies of things that went bump in the night. The Mutter's polished wood, gleaming brass rails and dark oil paintings suggest the library of a wealthy if eccentric 19th century aristocrat. But when professor Thomas Dent Mutter bequeathed his collection to the College of Physicians of Philadelphia in 1856, he intended it as a teaching aid, a guide to the eccentricities -- however terrifying...