Word: high
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Actually, yesterday's recorded high of 93 degrees Farenheit was higher--slightly--than the 92 degrees the National Weather Service recorded on August 5, 1988, when for the first time ever, high temperatures forced Harvard to close down...
...head for the beach just yet. Vice President for Administration Sally Zeckhauser said yesterday there was little chance that the current onslaught of high temperatures would result in a replay of last year's shutdown...
...then, in your view, literature continues to have a very high, moral, philosophical and political purpose...
Goldsmith maintains that B.A.T shareholders would be better off if the company were to refocus on the high-profit tobacco business, which is experiencing new growth in Asia and other overseas markets. A veteran conglomerate-buster who served as the model for the swashbuckling Sir Larry Wildman in the 1987 film Wall Street, the 6-ft. 4-in. Goldsmith may have made his point all too well. Now that he has put B.A.T on the block, other raiders may try to top his offer. Or B.A.T may attempt to boost its stock price beyond his reach by launching a restructuring...
...advice legendary hostess Perle Mesta gave those who wanted to make a place for themselves in the capital. Craig Spence, a would-be power broker with a taste for Edwardian suits, took that advice to heart when he arrived in Washington in the late 1970s and hurled himself into high-intensity party-giving at his elegant town house in the fashionable Kalorama section of town...