Word: heighted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...better accomplish these goals, we suggest some small changes in the format of the Bolder Boulder and similar races. All caps on runner entrance should, of course, be lifted. Instead, runners should be grouped according to pertinent characteristics like nationality, height, hair color, eye color and physical fitness...
...height of the controversy over grapes in the dining halls, Sulmers lent the organizations support to the fight against grapes. And Campbell remembers an executive board meeting in which affirmative action was the main topic of discussion...
...investments can be characterized by two variables, in the same way you might categorize a person by his hair color and height: risk and reward. They tend to be proportional. If you want more reward, generally it means taking a bigger risk. Home mortgages, for example, are fairly riskless propositions for lenders, but the reward is tiny--perhaps 6% a year in interest payments. On the other hand, lending money to the government of Malaysia is fairly lucrative, but it is not an investment for the faint of heart--the double-digit interest rate brings with it risks...
...problems to his audience. There is no mention of inflation or of developing labor markets, except from the equally prejudiced mouths of corporate representatives. When talking to PR workers, Moore feigns naivite, asking questions as if he doesn't expect them to be upsetting or threatening. This is the height of annoyance...
...joys of beating a wake through the waves. As a young man, he and his close friends would often swim in local streams before they debated together the myriad challenges that faced their nation. But especially after 1955, when he was in his early 60s and at the height of his political power as leader of the Chinese People's Republic, swimming became a central part of his life. He swam so often in the large pool constructed for the top party leaders in their closely guarded compound that the others eventually left him as the pool's sole user...