Word: hails
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...increased staffing. We want to retain our privacy in these areas; the council is right to insist on anonymous HIV testing, secure computer records and closed personal files. Finally, we want to see Harvard be socially responsible in its investments (get out of Nigeria!) and in its consumption (we hail Coke's return to soda machines...
...Boston Ballet has a fabulous reputation, and a well-deserved one at that. Its dancers hail from all over the world. The costumes in its productions are nothing short of spectacular. Even the Wang Center itself is a magnificent building--one could stare for hours at the ceiling alone and still not witness all of its glorious details...
...time is limited to sea level have forgotten and ended up in the golf course." The weather was ugly. A thunderstorm was moving in from the northwest, winds were 25 to 30 m.p.h. Thunderstorms are a potent cocktail for pilots, a possible mixture of updrafts, downdrafts, turbulence, icing and hail all at once. "I would have taxied up the runway and headed back," says "Red" Kelso of Cheyenne, a retired pilot with 52 years of flying experience. "There's no way I would have gone up in weather like that...
Each weekend, students can see everything from orchestras to a capella groups. Some of the nation's best-known musical talents hail from Harvard: Yo Yo Ma '76, Leonard Bernstein '39, Robinson Professor of Music Robert D. Levin '68 and more recently, jazz musician Joshua Redman '91 and cellist Matt Haimovitz...
...business magazine, taxes and prices would be popular topics. What's striking is the sheer intensity of Forbes' obsession. Since 1988, Forbes has written at least 65 pieces that urge tax cuts, moan about taxes here and abroad, look back with anger on tax hikes past or hail great tax cuts and cutters of yesteryear. No fewer than 45 columns, meanwhile, give lectures on the need for stable money, preferably achieved by returning to a gold standard, and berate the Federal Reserve and other financial authorities for assorted crimes against currency. By contrast, just a handful of Forbes' columns discuss...