Word: forthe
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Greater Bostons for the first time in five years, pipping MIT to the post by eight shots, and then in Portland, Maine in the Spring New Englands, Luis finally burst forth in a blaze of birdies...
President Bok announces that the Harvard Corporation will not sell its stock in the Gulf Oil Company. Instead, the Corporation will ask Gulf to set forth its plan for improving its employment, training and management policies. Also, the University will send a fact finder to Angola...
...course, these 14-to-17-year-olds won't be traversing the entire forest, which skips back and forth across the New Hampshire-Maine border. Most of the action in this $1400 program will occur in the rugged Mahoosuc Range. They'll construct "water bars" from felled timber or rocks to divert water from the trails, and create rock-filled wood boxes, called cribs, to raise the treadways above marsh lines. They may even repair the Appalachian Trail, which runs through the middle of the range...
...court has had to cancel hearings for about 600 cases this year. Criminal cases take precedence by law, so at both the trial and appellate levels, it is civil cases that have been crowded out. Civil rights cases, shareholder lawsuits, product-liability actions, medical-malpractice claims and so forth are being pushed to the back of the line, however urgent the complaints. Chief Judge J. Phil Gilbert of the southern district of Illinois went an entire year without hearing a single civil case, so overwhelmed was he by the criminal load in a jurisdiction down to two judges...
...arts in America did not bring forth anything much new at first, except for mid- to late-18th century furniture--and one work by Benjamin West. When he was 12, West (1738-1820) announced that his talent would make him the "companion of kings and emperors." And as a matter of fact, it did: after he settled in England in 1763, he became George III's favorite artist. His definitive work was The Death of General Wolfe, 1770. It was a history painting but recent history, recounting a British victory over the French at the Battle of Quebec only...