Word: hoards
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Another frightening possibility, Koocher said, is that CCA members would hold only a 4-3 majority on the new school committee, which--under school hoard guidelines--would not be enough to dismiss a tenured teacher. In this case, Koocher said, he committee would have a policy of minority teachers in the system but would have no way to dismiss other personnel, leaving the system with more teachers on its payroll than it would have funds...
DIED. Joseph H. Hirshhorn, 82, maverick financier, mining tycoon, art collector and founder of the Hirshhorn Museum; of a heart attack; in Washington, D.C. The Latvian-born Hirshhorn rose from penury to wealth through shrewd dealings in stocks, gold, uranium and oil, meanwhile amassing a high-quality hoard of 2,000 sculptures and 4,000 paintings valued at $50 million. He was persuaded by President Lyndon Johnson in 1966 to donate his collection to establish the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington, D.C., which the U.S. built eight years later at a cost of $15 million...
Into that frigid cavern, and 328 smaller warehouses and depositories around the country, the Department of Agriculture each week deposits 45 million lbs. of unwanted butter, cheese and nonfat dry milk. The accumulating hoard, which now totals 800,000 tons, or enough to fill a fleet of supertankers, is the result of the U.S. Government's 32-year-old dairy-price-support program. How to keep the stockpile from swelling even larger is now giving the Reagan Administration something approaching collective indigestion...
Restauranteur Silky Sullivan opened Memphis' Fifth Annual St. Patrick's Day Pub Crawl with the traditional "blessing of the keg." After the "blessing," a hoard of Irishmen, in spirit if not in fact, marched two miles from downtown Memphis to Overton Square, stopping at 19 bars and pubs along the way. Following the marchers was a truck with outside spigots--ready to provide beer between stops...
...filled with stacks of the owner's working material: wood slats, newel posts, balls, balusters, a hive of infinitely replicated fragments awaiting wholeness-to the severe bedroom, with its pressed-metal industrial closets and barracks-like austerity. The collage extends into the cupboards, which, when opened, reveal a hoard of oddments and chotchkes: vanity sets, inlaid boxes, tarnished trays, ugly Edwardian candlesticks with silver frills, like the stock of a dotty junkshop owner who cannot tear to part with anything. Mere presence in the cave signifies "treasure...