Word: filters
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Several aspects of the Reagan budget that would seem to include benefits for universities either will have little impact at Harvard or may actually aggravate existing financial problems. Increases in the Department of Defense (DOD) budget will probably filter down to some Pentagon-related research within the University, but Coddington says that large percentage gains in DOD funding reported recently are deceiving because Harvard has traditionally done little work for the military...
...breakwater exists, just as Fowles described it, at Lyme Regis, the small English sea-coast town of which he wrote. A film company needs only to go there, dress its actors in the costumes of 1867 (the story is a 19th century period piece, seen with irony through the filter of 20th century conceptions and misconceptions) and wait for dirty weather. All true, with only one complication: the look that Sarah Woodruff, the distraught figure on the breakwater, directs at Charles Smithson, the aristocratic young idler who approaches her there, must be so devastating that his comfortable life tumbles into...
...another woman, who, according to Sally, "is as neurotic as I used to be." Coming from a pill-popping vodka swigger, this brings down the house. Dennis' ability to widen her eyes in engrossed shell shock, like a child who has dropped an ice cream cone, and to filter her voice through obdurate adenoids makes her an enduringly dotty delight...
Walter Wriston, chairman of New York's Citibank, who has no M.B.A.: "We look on the M.B.A. degree as a tough filter through which people pass. It's one that lets them hit the deck running. But after you've been around a few months, nobody asks you where you went to school. They ask: 'What...
...Filter moisture into underground water tables for private and municipal wells...