Word: filles
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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March. The month when everyone stops talking sports and starts discussing politics to fill out the meaningless lunchtime "Hey, how's it going?" type of conversation. And while they say politics makes for strange bedfellows, my recurring nightmares still consist of being alone in a room with Jack O'Callahan and no referee...
...childhood. Harvard should devote its energy to creating situations that encourage and nurture the interests that students express. I believe that given the right atmosphere, people begin to explore a wide range of interests. But, rather than trying to open us up, the Core proposal is an attempt to fill us up. It is no accident that there isn't a requirement that undergraduates take one course in creative writing, studio art, public speaking, or any other creative endeavor...
...pothole time again, and after a frigid season of record snows, the nation's potholes appear to be of record size and quantity. The House has already voted to spend $250 million to fill them, and Joseph Ewing, research director of the Transportation Road Information Program in Washington, estimates the grand total of potholes to be filled at 116.4 million...
Where on earth does Ewing get such a number? Well, he adds up the tons of asphalt mix purchased by public works departments across the country: 6.4 million. Then he divides by the amount of fill required for the average pothole: 110 lbs. The resulting figure, of course, is no more than an elaborate guess. By similar magic, Ewing has figured out the cost of extra gas U.S. drivers will consume in swerving around the potholes: $626 million...
What happened was that Atlanta simply became overbuilt. New buildings failed to fill up, and high-cost real estate loans went unpaid. Late in 1976 the huge Colony Square commercial-residential redevelopment went bankrupt; last August Lance's National Bank of Georgia skipped a dividend. That same month, C & S cut its own quarterly dividend from 13? a share to 6?. In January it omitted the dividend for the first time since 1906, an alarming step for a bank of its stature. Then the Comptroller of the Currency ruled that even the slim profits C & S had reported...