Word: earthly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Lawrence S. Di Cara '71, a Boston real estate lawyer and 1983 mayoral candidate, attributed Flynn's success to his "down to earth" personality and to the fact that his populist leanings contrast sharply with the policies of his predecessor, Kevin White...
Goldman echoed Di Cara's contrast of Flynn and his predecessor. "If Kevin White is the L.A. Lakers, then Flynn is the Boston Celtics, down to earth and blue collar. What could be better than that? The general public thinks Flynn is doing a good...
...under construction across the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, which can handle many transmission needs as well as satellites do. Demand for launches might be reduced further by a new satellite-placement technique introduced last year. A slight change in the way satellites are positioned with respect to the earth is expected to reduce substantially the fuel needed to keep them in the correct orbital slot. If so, new satellites may last considerably longer than current models, and replacements will not have to be sent up as often...
...year is 1964. At her mansion in Orlando, Margery Post, the immensely rich only child of the man who invented Grape-Nuts, asks a friend, "Milly, if you had one place on earth where you finally felt comfortable, would you let the Disneys build a park in your backyard?" Milly happens to be a trusted associate of the ice cream and motel magnate Howard Johnson, who is also in Orlando, hoping to stop the Disneys. "I think we could take them," he tells her. "I think we can move into vacations...
...Johnson and Margery's father, C.W. Post. Apple invents their stories through a series of flashbacks and vignettes. Here is Post, a zealous vegetarian, who sees dry cereal not as a means to get rich but as a way to "save all the animals on the face of the earth." There is Johnson, who spends much of each year being chauffeured across America, picking sites for future motels through some instinctive knowledge of where future tired travelers will want to be treated to the comforts of home. Among the three dreamers, Disney seems the least fulfilled, his interest in pure...