Word: gifting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...These people have a great gift of gab and may just encounter you on the street," Rooney said. "If you're encountered, please call the Harvard police right away...
...travelers can buy National Bowling Stadium souvenirs right in the airport gift shops ("Reno Pinhead" caps are $14.95). On the bookshelves there, Dan Herbst's Bowling 300 shares space with Scarne's on Cards. The city and the sport are a good fit, says Eadington. "Reno by image is a working-class to middle-class locale, and that's consistent with bowlers. The way bowlers come in on these tournaments is ideal for a resort town: they're here for a fairly short period, and they don't strain the infrastructure capacity to the extent that major conferences...
...Vegas can't offer bowlers a facility like Reno's. No place can. The stadium is enormous, a city-block square; the gift shop alone is 11,000 sq. ft. The 80 bowling lanes can be covered over to make 38,000 sq. ft. of convention space. A 172-seat theater opened last week, with 70-mm showings of To Fly and a Reno travelog on a four-story screen. Pearson is already booking the theater for lectures and the space outside for a wide array of events, such as an auction in which 1,000 Harley-Davidsons will...
...center was founded after the Lewis family donated $3 million--money that at the time, in 1992, constituted the largest ever single gift to the Law School...
America never stops moaning about the absence of heroes--"Where have you gone, Joe DiMaggio?"--yet when it has someone who daily displays grit, generosity, spirit and skill, not to mention incredibly blue eyes, what does it do? It looks this generation's gift horse in the mouth. Robert Lipsyte, the respected New York Times columnist, recently suggested that Ripken take a seat rather than sully Gehrig's memory. And the hate mail that Ripken has received this summer has been of such volume and venom that Major League Baseball has had to beef up the security around...