Word: build
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Winston Churchill never made the first page while he was alive; only his death put him there. Aside from those few departures from tradition, Page One has been devoted to notices and classified advertisements: secretaries looking for work, wives imploring their husbands to return, Tibetan refugees seeking funds to build a monastery in India...
Alexander Calder, 67, loves to play with space. In the 1930s he invented the mobile, that flying trapeze of multi colored disks adangle which made sculpture fly. Now he makes stabiles, which, as the name implies, build up from the ground to defy gravity. Cars can drive under his largest stabile, a 59-ft.-tall giant in the festival city of Spoleto, Italy...
Entrepreneur Lapin, 38, is on the way to becoming a millionaire, thanks mostly to franchising, one of the fastest-growing facets of U.S. business. Franchisers build national chains dealing in everything from popcorn to part-time help by licensing others to invest in and operate stores or offices; the franchiser makes money from the license and by selling supplies, techniques or recipes as well as nationally advertised signs, slogans and decor. Such operations now do a combined annual business of $25 billion, are growing 10% yearly...
...Faculty directors and the HDC also agreed that a ten-show season would allow a more efficient use of the Loeb's facilities. Ten shows will have both longer runs and more time to build sets and rehearse than 12 would...
Damon is making the study in an attempt to find clues linking a person's body build to his life expectancy. Although his data are still incomplete, he has reached several preliminary conclusions...