Word: coxes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Texas League Squeeze Play. One of Perot's best accounts was the Southwestern Life Insurance Co., which he inherited in 1958 from fellow salesman Jim Cox, who was promoted to a post in California. Some months earlier, Cox had received an order from Southwestern for a 7070 computer, then IBM's largest commercial unit. Perot had 90 days either to declare the deal dead (and get Cox to return a $10,000 partial commission) or to agree to try to install the machine himself for what was known as an installation commission. If he accepted the risk and failed, however...
...been hell," says Mari Cox, 37, a medical assistant in Kansas City, Kans. A wet spring and wind in the region have whipped up pollen counts, so debilitating Cox that she hasn't been gardening -- her hobby -- or even playing with her five kids. Instead she is lying low, taking antihistamines and decongestants. "I'm miserable," she says...
...lives comfortably in London's St. John's Wood. It is she who receives by mail an odd package containing notebooks, scrambled manuscript pages and what appears to be the skeletal remains of a human finger. She assumes that all this has something to do with her friend Stephen Cox, a respected novelist who set off some two years earlier, hoping to get into Cambodia and gather material for a play about Pol Pot. And it is she who finally decides to go to Cambodia herself to find out whether Stephen is alive or dead...
...philosophy concentrator in Winthrop; Phillip M. Cheng '93, a biochemical sciences concentrator in Cabot; Sean M. Williford '93, a linguistics concentrator in Mather; Sohrab Ismail-Beigi '93, a physics concentrator in Quincy; Stephen L. Burt '93, an English and American literature and language concentrator in Adams; and Stephen M. Cox, a history major in Cabot, were also selected on the basis of grade point average, recommendations and overall coursework...
Through generous alumni donations and fund-raising by individual houses, equipment has been upgraded to include carbon-fiber oars and electronic "cox-box" systems. The boats remain traditional in hull-shape and undifferentiated from one another, in order to avoid unfair advantages between the crews...