Word: flock
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...year-old junior built a financial model that showed which livestock operations on her parents' 40-acre farm were no longer profitable, and why. By surveying farms in the area to compare feed costs, weight gain per animal and other variables, Angie discovered that the family's flock of 50 sheep was overfed. Guided by her data, the Noltings cut back on feed outlays. Although the threat of foreclosure forced the family to sell off the sheep and their 40 head of Hereford cattle last December, Angie won a Future Farmers of America prize for her computer model...
...season's prime-time competition, which promises to be the tightest in years, NBC has lured the executive producer of Back to the Future, Steven Spielberg, to mastermind a suspense anthology series called Amazing Stories. With Hollywood's alltime hitmaker anchoring the Sunday night lineup, and with a flock of summer comers, Tinker figures that "this fall may be the time when NBC blows right by everybody." Tartikoff seems energized by the thrill of the chase. "In the past," he says, "every time a show bit the dust, you figured you'd be joining it. This kind of pressure...
Many courses draw huge crowds because they are noted "guts." Others fill the largest lecture halls because they are required. But there are a few courses at Harvard that students flock to simply because they are "fun" to attend...
Many courses draw huge crowds because they are noted "guts." Others fill the largest lecture halls because they are required. But there are a few courses at Harvard that students flock to simply because they are "fun" to attend...
...addition, the insititution's presence reportedly pumps more than $1 million into the local economy. And don't forget all those high tech research firms and croissant eating yuppies who flock to share the same city with one of the world's greatest institutions...