Word: garden
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...case hinges on whether or not the club is a public organization, which is legally prohibited from discriminating on the basis of sex. Schkolnick's attorney has argued that the club's connections with graduate members, fundraising practices, open parties and the garden plot it manages jointly with the University make the Fly Club clearly public...
...love of science, which began at age three when she started tracing the paths of ants in her garden," reads the release, "became an intellectual endeavor when she spent seven years on insect endocrinology projects at Queens College and St. John's University in New York City...
...Secretary comes across as a man with no clear-cut agenda who prefers speechmaking to policymaking. "Cavazos hit the ground strolling," says Democratic Congressman Pat Williams of Montana, chairman of the House post- secondary education subcommittee. "He believes the job can get done with Rose Garden ceremonies." An example came earlier this month when Cavazos unveiled a report showing that the performance of U.S. students remained "stagnant." The Secretary said the lack of progress "scared" him, but all he proposed to do was urge Governors and school board presidents to push for higher graduation rates. "He keeps telling us that...
...couple of fans raised a sign that read "Cleary Country," usually reserved for Boston Garden, the place where two months earlier Harvard captured the Beanpot for the first time since 1981. But for just one brief moment in the Land of the Golden Gophers, those fans were right...
Moreover, Jones was adaptable. When he was designing the piazza of Covent Garden with its integrated church of St. Paul, the Earl of Bedford (who was paying for it) told Jones he wanted the church to be "not much better than a barn." "Well, then! You shall have the handsomest barn in England," Jones answered, and produced it. He never delegated a design or failed to transform what he copied. He thought -- and drew -- in terms of large volumes, generous spaces, exalted plainness relieved by lucid, ingenious detailing. Later Georgian architects would owe him an immense debt...