Word: holdings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hours are really taboo. The question remaining is whether repeating the ban will have any more effect than the original one, and first indications demonstrate that this time the masters are a little more serious. They have protected themselves by saying the actual happy hours are too dangerous to hold. Alcohol at open parties has to be carefully regulated, in accordance with...
Harvard sailors also placed first in the Hoyt Trophy, which was contested at Brown on the 14th. King's Point, last year's North American champion, was favored to top the field of ten. The favorites were leading by one point going into the last race, but could not hold onto the lead as Harvard sailed into the sunset with a two point victory and the Hoyt Trophy...
Once the office of environmental affairs is satisfied, the state secretary of administration and finance must still hold his own public hearings and issue a final decision. Most observers say that ground-breaking ceremonies for the complex, designed by the Cambridge Kennedy Square Associaties, are at least a year away...
Until the city grants the occupancy permits, the group will hold only three 40-minute meditation periods a day, usually involving ten people at a time, Dennis J. Lennox, the group's sexton and the only person now living in the house, said yesterday. The CBA has not scheduled ceremonies and hasn't been able to move its library, he added...
Another reason for Edison's inability to hold on to money was his extravagance. He excelled at raising venture capital (J.P. Morgan helped to bankroll his effort to invent the electric light), but had a genius for spending even more than he raised. Not on himself; his oddball personal habits were far from extravagant. But no sum was too great to lavish on his laboratories; Edison ordered the most expensive materials on earth, like platinum, by the pound. He was also the creator of the modern research and development lab, which he called an "invention factory...