Word: golden
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...happy retirement is the means to enjoy it. Roger de Haan ended up with more than enough money to bankroll his golden years when he decided to retire and sell Saga Group, his family's business, in late 2004. The British travel, media and financial-services company that targets older consumers attracted several major bidders, with London private-equity firm Charterhouse ultimately paying $2.4 billion. Not bad for what De Haan's father started 53 years earlier as a modest operator of guest hotels and tours in the English seaside resort of Folkestone...
Umm…not exactly. The game I was covering was a part of the women’s Beanpot between Harvard and Boston College. It was a rematch of last year’s final, in which the Golden Eagles ended the Crimson’s streak of seven consecutive Beanpot titles...
...Finally, at 2:45 p.m., two overseers enthusiastically confirmed that Drew Gilpin Faust would become Harvard’s 28th president.Board members continued to exit the building. Overseer Richard I. Melvoin ’73 signalled his support for the president-elect by donning a crimson tie emblazoned with golden trees, the symbol of the Radcliffe Institute that Faust currently leads.Frances D. Fergusson, one of the three overseer members of the nine-person presidential search committee that recommended Faust for the post, emerged a little after three o’clock and described how Faust was informed of her official...
...Richard I. Melvoin '73, an Overseer and the headmaster of Belmont Hill School, exits Loeb House wearing a crimson tie laced with golden trees—the symbol of Radcliffe College...
...turned out, the confetti raining down and the golden trophy glowing above the head of captain Fabio Cannavaro was just a flickering interlude in what is turning out to be among the darkest periods ever for Italian soccer. The shadow had already been cast before the June-to-July victorious run in Germany, as a referee scandal consumed many of Italy's top league teams. Wire-tapped phone calls revealed that team officials orchestrated referee selection, and everyone from league bosses to politicians to television commentators had a foot in the alleged "system" of influence. The controversy eventually forced Juventus...