Word: busting
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...mentor Leonard Bernstein stepped in for Bruno Walter, the young stand-in performed brilliantly, the critics raved, and a new star moved to the front ranks of American conductors. His recordings were praised, and the Buffalo Philharmonic named him its musical director in 1971. But a 1978 marijuana bust at Kennedy airport tarnished his reputation, and by the time Tilson Thomas left the U.S. to become principal conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra in 1987, he had become yesterday's sensation...
...point, I thought we were going to go bust because we couldn't make payroll," says Dan Cunningham, the chief financial officer. "Bill kept the company running on his credit cards--Visa and MasterCard, not American Express, because that is a card that you have to pay the bill on every month." In the middle of a rise in the silver market in 1989, Schrader's mother raised several thousand dollars by selling the silver coins she had collected, and invested the proceeds in PSINet. The following day the silver market dropped sharply...
...clock that evening people said that there was an eight-foot tall bust of Abraham Lincoln's head in the middle of the Quad...
...fact such a proposal was anticipated by the original of the Hall. Dedicated to "the graduates and students of the University who died in defense of the Union, or who served in its defense during the Rebellion of 1861," the deed of gift included the stipulation that "no picture, bust, tablet, monument, or memorial shall be allowed within said Hall inconsistent with its intent." So it was until Edgar H. Wells, editor of The Harvard Alumni Bulletin, raised the issue in an editorial in the Bulletin in 1909, in which he argued that "The Harvard men...whether they fought under...
...MORE APPROPRIATE TITLE FOR YOUR article could have been "Evolution's Big Bust." One hundred and thirty five years of Darwinism out the window just like that? What a poor excuse for the absence of transitional forms. The Book of Genesis is looking better all the time. MIKE CHRISTIAN Tallmadge, Ohio