Word: delight
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...many students say they will greet exile up Garden Street with delight. While the River houses remain popular, spacious rooms and guaranteed singles are luring some. rising sophomores to Cabot, Currier, and--nextyear--Pforzheimer...
...Powell's main passion seems to be his private life. His new career as a writer and public speaker lets him spend lots of time with his family, in whom he takes obvious delight: baby-sitting his grandchildren and dining at home with his wife Alma (who doesn't want him to run). After a lifetime of Army housing, he likes being what he calls "General Harry Homeowner" in his $1.3 million mini-mansion in a Washington suburb. The general's missions: repairing drywall to fix water damage from an upstairs shower and messing around with the antique Volvos...
Barings believed it was not exposed to any risk because Leeson said he was executing the huge purchase orders at a client's behest-and presumably with the client's funds. Furthermore, to Barings' delight, Leeson was also making a tidy profit by making those trades in conjunction with the bank's separate and official holdings of Nikkei 225s in Osaka and SIMEX."I won't tell you how good," says a Barings employee, "but it was a good business." Little did Barings know that it was responsible for error account No. 88888, which was unhedged and would turn...
...once something is developed, it need not be very expensive.'' To prove that point, Dalton has begun to offer its learning technology to a few public schools. The Juarez Lincoln Elementary School in Chula Vista, California, for instance, has been using Archaeotype for three years, much to the delight of its largely poor and ethnically diverse students. Ultimately, Dalton hopes to be able to bring its technology to market. Alas, sharing software alone will not bring about the education revolution. Few schools today have the computing power to run multimedia programs like those used at Dalton. Fewer still have...
Meanwhile, a small tyke snuck up behind the eagle and pantsed him, pulling his shorts down to his ankles to the delight of the crowd. Not to be outdone, an older gent did the same thing. (No, the eagle isn't anatomically correct...