Word: ironic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...born with many advantages. In his native Jamaica, Ferguson attended the exclusive Calabar boys' high school, an academy that numbers among its alumni Percival Patterson, the island's Prime Minister. The Fergusons lived in a two-story home protected by walls and wrought-iron gates in Kingston's elite suburb of Havendale. His father Von Herman Ferguson was one of the most prominent businessmen in Jamaica. When the elder Ferguson died in a car accident in 1978, his funeral was attended by government and military luminaries. However, that passage -- and the subsequent death of Ferguson's mother from cancer -- shattered...
...catalogue reads, "Add a fun and festive air to your holiday table. Our exclusive reindeer are handmade of iron. Set of two, $29.95." Why not add the weight of a small truck to your holiday table by buying an army of 66 iron reindeer? Or, for those who like the glitter of gold and the freshness of fruit, a collection of 200 pieces of gold-painted fruit? Or the gift that keeps on giving--50 years' worth of the Museum of Modern Art's 4-foot wide `Stendig' calendar. All from Crate and Brattle, 48 Brattle Street...
...currently working. Broadest is perhaps the more salient and unambiguous of these two terms; best after all, conjures up methodological pyrotechnics and irreducible antagonism between different nations and disciplinary traditions. But who can match Larry in his capacity to move incisively and yet serenely from later prehistory to Iron Age, from Carthage to the Euphrates. Even more impressive in some ways, is his conceptual and disciplinary range. The need to combine philogical and archaeological approaches and considerations he learned already at Harvard. But at Chicago he has gone much further, as I have had the gratifying opportunity...
Hung says the most common questions she gets are about weight loss or gain, low fat diets and how to get specific nutrients like protein and iron. Her advice to students wanting to have a healthy diet is to base their eating on a food pyramid--a refinement of the old four food group recommendation...
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