Word: fulcrums
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...That evening, Bruce and I played a little tennis with Barry and Mike-other old friends-then enjoyed a cookout at Bruce?s place. Next morning I breakfasted with Mom, then drove back to Westchester. The weekend before last, there was that neighborhood party, followed by the summer fulcrum: the All-star break. I thought the several Sox acquitted themselves nicely in the not-very-interesting game. Tito managed about as well as he has since joining the club. Save some of that, Terry...
...March 3, 2005, at approximately 2 p.m., an employee of “Fulcrum Association” reported that an unknown suspect removed several cast iron sinks and radiators from 45 Yerxa...
...there was one awful period of nine days, the period of the General Strike, when the Empire seemed poised on the fulcrum of social revolution. But next to the good humor and cooperativeness of the British public what was the chief force which caused Labor leaders to call off the strike? Being British, they were routed when the man whom they had heard was "the Empire's greatest lawyer," Sir John Simon, today Foreign Secretary, declared with cataclysmic calm that in his opinion the General Strike was illegal and the Crown could successfully prosecute...
...comment for this story. But Wall Street insiders say that should anything happen to him in the near term, News' highly regarded president, Peter Chernin, would run the company. Eventually, though, the Murdoch boys would be in charge. "It's a known evil going in," analyst Richard Greenfield of Fulcrum Partners says of any family-controlled business. "If you don't like it, you shouldn't own the stock...
...Mechanical Reproduction” as saying, “we must expect great innovations to transform the entire technique of the arts, thereby affecting artistic invention itself and perhaps even bringing about an amazing change in our very notion of art.” The fulcrum of this exhibition, which spans the whole period of the techniques of modern flat printmaking, is the exposition of the vice and the virtue of this new technology. It sets before our eyes the history that Valéry predicted as “profound changes impending in the ancient craft of the Beautiful...