Word: highnesses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Perfection Theory: This theory argues that Harvard students are obsessed with perfection, and hold too high standards for potential mates. "Possibilities" are weeded out as too stupid, too tall, too artistic, too athletic or worse, too conservative...
...first nobody noticed how much had disappeared because heists in high places occur without ski masks or guns. But now the House Banking Committee, the thousands of duped bondholders and the public have caught on: to the empty vault at California's Lincoln Savings and Loan, to the perfidy of its owner Charles Keating and to the complicity of the Government. Says Banking Committee member Jim Leach of Iowa: "Keating is at fault because he is a bank robber, but we in Washington made it, in part, a legal bank robbery...
...which people interact with the animals. The National Marine Fisheries Service, which monitors the capture and treatment of marine mammals, is holding a series of meetings to determine whether it should revise the way it permits private interests to use dolphins. For the swim programs, the stakes are high: they will have to shut down at the end of the year should NMFS decide they are not in the best interest of the animals...
...Hyatt swim program is by far the most elaborate yet devised. Run by veterinarians Jay Sweeney and Rae Stone, it tries to be educational as well as profitable. Special sessions are held for schoolchildren, who learn all about dolphins. Hawaii's superintendent of education Charles Toguchi gives Dolphin Quest high marks for its programs with island schools. The operators also devote a portion of their receipts to funding research on ways to save dolphins from drowning in tuna nets...
...stakes in the air war are high. About 20% of all airline passengers worldwide this year flew business class, and the number is growing. United Airlines is spending $45 million to revamp its business class, while Continental is doubling its international business-class capacity. Airlines have decided that, with executives at least, it pays to be class conscious...