Word: coms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...archly explain their characteristics. Thus the bassoon: "I am something of a deep thinker." Somehow, this unpromising libretto inspired Arrowood to portray each instrument being performed by one of his bewigged and frock-coated reptiles. The results are as absurd-and as charming-as Babar the elephant enjoying the Comédie Françhise...
...Com bien...
...Square's decline are considerably less ephemeral. The 80-member Central Square Association of Business and Professionals, Inc. (CSA) is headed by Chuck Smith, a former Iowan who came to Harvard's Graduate School of Design a few years back, stuck around, and is now the president of Com-Plan Inc., a Central-Square based architectural firm with offices in Cambridge and Caracas, Venezuela...
...provided the opening week of the Montreal Olympics with their reigning deity. That huge mantle fell upon the tiny shoulders of Nadia Comaneci, who electrified the crowds and bollixed the computers by compiling the first perfect gymnastic scores. Performing her bold and difficult routines with consummate control, Comaneci (pronounced Com-a-netch) tallied three 10s in the team competition, two in the individual all-around contest, and two in the individual-apparatus competition-showings good enough to win her three gold medals, one silver and one bronze. Whether doing backflips on the beam or rocketing herself around the uneven bars...
...case-by-case basis, then to discuss stockpile financing plans at a later date. In the absence of agreements on individual commodities, they argued, the Common Fund would needlessly divert development money from worthy projects. But the Group of 77 refused to budge. "We have been trying the com-modity-by-commodity approach for so many years," complained Widjojo Nitisastro, Indonesia's Minister of State for Economic, Financial and Industrial Affairs. "We must have the Common Fund as a catalyst...