Word: feastings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Scenario 1: A soft-hearted freshman has been caught smuggling a destitute mother and her four starving children into the Union, in order that these deadbeats might feast on the fat of Harvard's land. What will be the fate of this naughty freshman...
Harvard continues its feast-or-famine season against Ivy upstart Cornell next Saturday at the Stadium...
...recent Darwinian merger wave. Says Economist Alfred Kahn of Cornell University, who is widely viewed as the father of airline deregulation: "Instability is the price we pay for competition." Indeed, some 150 airlines have filed for bankruptcy or ceased operation since 1978, as the industry has lurched from occasional feast to occasional famine. The low point for deregulated airlines came in 1982, when the industry suffered an $800 million operating loss. The best unregulated year was 1984, when industry-wide profits hit $2.3 billion. But last year airline earnings dipped 39%, to $1.4 billion, meaning that on average, carriers...
...religious feast in Guatemala, a man playing the role of Judas is "hanged." Most photographers would show his whole figure. Gilles Peress gives us just his feet, dangling from the top of the frame, an acknowledgment that this bit of village pageantry has its share of the airborne sublime. A statue is carried through the streets in a Holy Week procession. Peress crops out the bearers, the better to invest the figure with an unearthly life of its own. His colors are deeply saturated reds and purples that push his shots into the realm of theatrical fantasy. These...
Governor White had to fork over 150 pounds of barbecued chicken to Governor Dukakis because of the Rockets' loss. Even more disappointing, I wasn't even invited to share in the Texas feast...