Word: groves
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Late in the third period when Harvard Captain Ken Code clutched his side, threw off his grove, skated to the face-off circle, and felt to the ice, few in the sellout Boston Garden Beanpot crowd seemed concerned with Northeastern's 7-3 lead...
Some business people blame such fiascoes on overeager venture capitalists who drive companies to market prematurely so that they can cash in their stakes. One of their most prominent critics is Intel President Andrew Grove. Grove accuses what he calls "vulture capitalists" of roaming around companies and tempting talented employees with promises of quick riches. He says that venture capitalists are in the process of wrecking some good high-tech firms. Of course, several of Intel's senior executives are partners in venture capital funds. Moreover, the company was started by two scientists who left Fairchild Camera and Instrument...
Some opposition is simply competitive. In Maine, says Penobscot Tribal Governor Timothy Love, state officials "looked the other way until the Elks, the V.F.W and the Knights of Columbus all started ranting and raving about us." Not far from the Barona reservation in California, Lemon Grove V.F.W. Officer W. Happy Blake says his bingo take has withered by 75%. "I'm still holding on, but just barely...
...offensive, Nahr al Barid fell and the noose tightened. Last Monday, Arafat and his top advisers moved into Tripoli, igniting fears among the populace of 500,000 that the city would soon be swallowed up by the fighting. The Arafat loyalists set up artillery and rocket launchers in a grove of orange trees near the waterfront quarter and fired at the troops advancing on Baddawi, a dreary, ramshackle warren of cinder-block houses that normally is home to 10,000 people...
DEEP IN THE BOWELS of Lowell House, in a cramped room riddled with steam pipes and sighing ventilator shafts. David Win-grove has revived Michel Tremblay's Bonjour, La. Bonjour. Tremblay's play about incest and despair in a Montreal family enjoyed critical success in Canada, made a small splash in New York--and should probably have been allowed to lade into memory thereafter. Though a spirited Lowell House Drama Society production captures enough of Tremblay's lacerating wit to keep the pot boiling for two hours, the script clamps a cover on the actors, and the play never takes...