Word: freights
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Second, I believe in Harvard's policy of providing financial aid to students who come from families not able to pay full freight. I believe it is vital to get alumni support for this effort to secure economic and other diversity in the student body. To my mind, the best way to give young people a chance to escape from situations in which they cannot hope for a shot at professional opportunity and other social goods enjoyed by the members of the middle class is the kind of education offered by Harvard and other colleges of reputation. So that...
...smiled as Harvard took to field and felt something rare inside me as the team came together in a frenzied mass of energy reminiscent of the excitement and confidence of the 1997 season when Harvard ran through the Ivy schedule like a freight train on a mission...
Then there is the ValuJet theory. On May 11, 1996, spare oxygen-generating canisters stowed as freight aboard ValuJet Flight 592 ignited and sent the DC-9 plunging into the Everglades. The generators had been mistakenly marked empty, and the crew never knew that the plane was carrying hazardous material. Could similar undeclared baggage have doomed Swissair 111? In 1990, air personnel discovered undeclared hazardous cargo--usually because it leaked or emitted a smell--on 63 occasions; by last year, that number had ballooned to 349. Shippers are still not required to disclose to air carriers the contents of their...
...five U.S. service academies, where an appointment comes almost entirely at taxpayers' expense, or toward Berea or the Webb Institute, where tuition is free. Or you could get a job with Wilson Greatbatch Ltd. in Clarence, N.Y., which has an education fund that pays the full freight for company employees and their children. But chances are, those aren't options, in which case all this advice just might be worth a degree in something...
...addition to functioning as an affirmation of newfound physical liberty, travel served a practical purpose: many blacks--primarily men, who were less constrained by family ties than women--took to the road in search of work. These journeys, made by foot and by freight train, gave rise to the figure of the male blues singer--a lone black man with a guitar, traveling the countryside singing about his life. This rural genre became known as country blues...