Word: flood
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Believe it or not, this situation had its comic moments. Libby's house was a block from mine in a Bel Air canyon. When the flood rains came, the mudslides simultaneously filled my house and his well-stocked bomb-shelter (food and booze) from floor to ceiling...
This resulted in a flood of initial publicity, capped by a New York Times cover story in which Nobel laureate and co-discoverer of DNA James D. Watson was quoted as saying that Folkman would have the cure for cancer in two years...
...executing trades for an hour or two. The incident, which came only a week after SEC chairman Arthur Levitt warned traders about the dangers of Net stock mania, spurred New York State's attorney general to launch an investigation into the booming industry. Some online brokers, hit with a flood of service complaints, are trying to temper customer enthusiasm: Waterhouse Securities prohibits Web trading of certain volatile Net stocks, and Schwab and Discover have made it harder to trade on margin. For a reliable site, go to keynote.com and gomez.com which regularly monitor broker performance. --By Daniel Eisenberg...
...powerfulsingers as well as actors, and Ragtime isno exception to this rule. Everyone with a solosings with enough heartfelt emotion to bring theentire audience to tears. The voices ofEichenberger and Cearcy, as Mother and Sarahrespectively, create the audio equivalent ofheartbreak itself--Eichenberger with painfullymeasured dignity, Cearcy with a flood of rawemotion. As Coalhouse Walker Jr., Hamiltondisplays an enormous range of talent both duringand between his solo numbers. He slips into eachmood--from languid happiness to pure joy to miseryto violent anger--with a realistic lucidity thatcements his position as one of the mostoutstanding members of the cast. In addition, thecharacters...
...Crimson this past year, I wondered on occasion why we--100 or so volunteer students--put out a newspaper every day. It is not an easy feat. Sometimes, there is simply a lack of important events to cover. I cringed the day we led with a minor flood in a House dining hall, accompanied by a six-inch-wide photo of a sign informing students of flood. The kind of feedback we usually get from readers is criticism, which can be vocal, as it was in response to our coverage of the arrest of Joshua M. Elster '00. And there...