Word: buildings
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McKinsey also observed that holding group tutorials is one way for fellow concentrators to become acquainted, and even more important, to learn from each other. "The sophomore tutorial is the base on which you can build your intellectual camaraderie for the rest of your academic career," she added...
...painful experience divides Come Blow Your Horn, his first production, from Chapter II, his latest straight play. Come Blow Your Horn transformed the attempts of Simon and his brother to break away from home into a mechanically riotous farce. Chapter II, on the other hand, recreated his efforts to build a new life after his wife's death so sensitively that critics hailed the play as a breakthrough in his writing...
Since last fall, new U.S. deals with China-to build hotels, open iron mines, sell planes, oil drilling equipment and even Coca-Cola-have been popping like firecrackers at a Chinese New Year celebration. U.S. exports to China leaped from $171.5 million in 1977 to $823.6 million last year, and forecasts of the 1985 volume range up to $6 billion...
...companies believe their devices will build up a new home-entertainment industry that will complement rather than compete with the more expensive VTRS. They also hope to grab a share of the $2.4 billion a year that Americans currently lay out for movie admissions and the $3.5 billion they spend on records and tapes; when hooked up to a stereo system, videodiscs produce a better sound quality than regular records...
...making grim references to a nuclear holocaust if the West did not get out of Berlin, where it had had a legal right to be since 1945. Beneath the bluster, however, Khrushchev was behaving cautiously. At first, he resisted East German Party Boss Walter Ulbricht's request to build the Wall. When the barrier was erected, Western leaders reacted with relief. They had been expecting much worse...