Word: joining
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...will make a miserable 15%. "We can't go much longer unless something changes," Simpson says. Then he pauses and his face grows tender and sad. "They say the best product off a farm is the children." Earl's two sons, who farm with him, look down. Simpson will join the combine cavalcade, crops or not, to clean up his fields, and because the seasons speak to him in mysterious ways that the rest of us never know. He also understands that greater problems lie west and north of him, where the plague is abundance: bin-busting, price-depressing, spirit...
...teaching anthropology at Eastern Washington University, agrees that the Cambridge mystique remains as powerful as ever: "You say 'Harvard' and there's this pause," she says. However, she still shudders a bit at some of the memories: halfway through her grueling Ph.D. oral, her inquisitors abruptly invited her to join them for a tea break and informal chat. "I think they wanted to see if you could be graceful even when your life was passing before your eyes," she says...
Wilson, always combative, was made more so by whisky, but he met his match in Robert Lowell, who was then entering one of his periodic descents into insanity and was involved with a "pretty little girl in Cambridge, who wanted to write poetry." Lowell asked the girl to join them at dinner, and to disguise the scene a little he invited quite a few others. Mrs. Lowell, who had only planned on dinner for four, did her best to disinvite some of the new guests. "She was in a dreadful state of tension and apprehension, having realized that Robert...
Three other panelists acknowledged that large firms can afford to accept more cases without payment. However, each argued that lawyers who join large firms, most of which have close ties to business, are easily seduced by the profit motive...
After today's convocation Shultz and his wife will join President Derek C. Bok and his wife, Professor Sissela Bok, at a luncheon honoring the secretary of state in the Fogg Art Museum...