Word: brightening
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Atlanta's bureau of recreation, picks up some fresh-cut varieties while he does his shopping at the DeKalb County farmers' market. Says he: "I don't know the names of what I'm buying. I just know how they look." People are buying flowers to decorate their homes, brighten up their offices or cheer up pals. Michael Goldberg, a Chicago financial analyst, sent flowers to a college friend who had failed a test...
...whole, Harvard cannot be faulted for skimping on diversity. In its admissions policy, the College aggressively seeks to attract students from all regions and back grounds with a wide variety of interests and skills both to enhance and to brighten the undergraduate experience and for socially strategic reasons. It is as a result of this policy that there are jock or preppie or wonk Houses. With its Core Curriculum, the College has tried to broaden the minds of its students and insure that they emerge with more than highly specialized knowledge. But when these praiseworthy practices are applied to House...
...Gene Scroggy has had Kentucky's old electric chair stripped of its black paint and left naturally blond. "I didn't care for black," explains Scroggy. "Black was fine 22 years ago. But society, the way it is today-well, we thought we'd try to brighten...
...stars from the national republican galaxy came to Boston last night hoping to brighten the cause of Republican Senate candidate Raymond Shamic...
Lights will brighten up Harvard Stadium for the first time in its 80-year history when the Olympic soccer trials come to town this summer...