Word: central
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...holds that it is not the thought that counts, it's the cost of a gift multiplied by its value on the Total Uselessness Continuum (TUC) which determines its success as a crowd pleaser. For example, if your giftee does not own any sort of boat and lives in Central lowa, you can given him or her a brass ship's wheel which costs about $550 in the Quincy market. On a Total Uselessness scale from 1 (relatively useful), to 10 (no earthly reason why anyone would need this object), a ship's wheel rates about an eight...
...times, A Childhood is a wondrous and fearful book--funny, too, as when Crews describes how people doctor mules to make them appear younger, concluding that "a farting mule is a good mule." But always he comes back to his central thesis: It was a hard time in a hard place, and lot of times the only way to find the courage to get by was to by-God want what you had more than the next fellow. The book ends, skipping forward 15 years, in 1956, with Crews just home from the Marine Corps, cropping tobacco with his cousins...
...fine and the problem was contained. The lodge owners, the ski patrol used the language of war when they spoke of the situation. They didn't let us out that afternoon but said things would clear up by morning. Ski in an area when you could sneeze and the Central Bowl would fall down on top of you? Thanks, but no thanks...
Several faculty members said yesterday that Harvard scholars might lose credibility abroad or find foreign research in jeopardy, in the wake of a statement last week by Adm. Stansfield Turner, director of the Central Intelligence Agency, that some faculty members are working with the CIA in violation of Harvard guidelines...
These guidelines prompted a conference Friday between President Bok and Adm. Stansfield Turner, director of The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). After the conference, Bok said that their differences had been "narrowed" as a result of the meeting...