Word: columbus
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Cockroaches crawled upNewt Gingrich's lapels and a 50-pound bearcat sat on his head during Columbus Zoo director Jack Hanna's visit to the Speaker's office today. Gingrich, who said his boyhood dream had been to be a zookeeper, invited Hanna to drop by with a few friends, which also included a python and a poisonous African toad. Although Hanna normally includes a tiger in his entourage, Capitol Police balked at letting him pack a tranquilizer gun. Instead, Hanna brought a newt. "Notice how small and unprepossessing they are," Gingrich said, with a smile, as the newt stood...
...savings and loan system for a ride. We taxpayers had to come up with an estimated $500 billion to cover those losses. And if Leeson suffers the same fate as our homegrown speculators, he will end up in a nice, cushy job, living the good life. Frank Jerome Columbus, Indiana BARINGS' COLLAPSE CANNOT BE BLAMED solely on derivatives. A system that permits a trader any access, however limited, to the back-office process (settlement, accounting, mark to market) is a blueprint for disaster. No maxim is more fundamental for a financial institution. Mark Martinelli Mahwah, New Jersey WHAT A VIVID...
...private sector,'' he vows. ``At some point, I'm out of this.'') His first job after graduating from college in 1974 was as an aide in the state senate, and within four years he had won a seat there. In 1982 he beat a weak incumbent in eastern Columbus and entered Congress--the only Republican to beat a Democrat that recession-racked year...
...advocates argue that the pursuit of scientific knowledge is not what manned spaceflight is all about. No, it's about humanity transcending its current planetary limits. And it's about astronauts sailing through the blackness of space and walking on the surface of new worlds, just as Christopher Columbus did half a millennium...
...Over the Columbus Day weekend the squad competed in a Sectional tournament that featured collegiate and post-collegiate club teams from all around the New England area. The Disciples finished with a 2-2 record but failed to advance to the Regionals...