Word: deck
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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While you're at Copley Square, take a minute to visit the tall buildings. The John Hancock Tower reflects the older buildings around it. The tallest building in Boston, it has a sightseeing deck and museum on its top floor...
...team effort, it was the best meet I've been a part of," he continued. "Nothing compares to the kind of feelings you had on deck [that...
Shuffling the Deck...
...come from a blue-collar or less affluent background, you face a more difficult transition here, and also in your background and growing up you had access to far fewer resources," acknowledges William R. Fitzsimmons '67, dean of admissions and financial aid. "There's no question that the deck is stacked out there in the real world against those who come from blue-collar backgrounds. That can be seen very directly in the steep correlations between SAT scores and socioeconomic backgrounds...
...hunting cabin he owned on top of a mountain in Hope, Idaho, in 1994. He had died of a heart attack at age 65, and now his corpulent, embalmed body was wedged into the front seat of a brown 1940 Packard coupe. There was a dollar and a deck of cards in his pocket, a bottle of 1931 Chianti beside him and the ashes of his dog Smash in the back. He was set for the afterlife. To the whine of bagpipes, the Packard, steered by his widow Nancy Reddin Kienholz, rolled like a funeral barge into the big hole...