Word: landed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...situation in Florida is duplicated on barrier islands up and down the Atlantic Coast. When it's time to evacuate, it doesn't really matter where on these narrow strips of land you live--you're stuck on the same stretch of highway. Some officials now believe that the coastal states may have to toughen their construction standards even more, forcing builders to install hardened bunkers, like aboveground bomb shelters, so residents can stay during a hurricane and take their chances...
...will sit through a presentation by an online wine shop and have sushi with a man who claims to have a blockbuster e-commerce idea--he just won't tell Chin what it is. Chin will take his chances. Like every young VC in the Valley, he needs to land a big IPO score to become a real player. He's too sure of himself to admit being worried that many of the companies he backs will never make it that far. "It's a guess; it's a bank shot--you throw it on the wall and hope...
...Although the major action of the novels takes place in a magical land of wizards, the real world is never far away. In contrast to older children's novels which featured white-bread boys' schools, Rowling's Hogwarts School is co-ed, and its pupils come from diverse ethnic backgrounds. And like so many of today's movies and TV programs, Rowling's story is straightforward about the tragedies and violence in its characters' lives. Harry has painful memories of his mother screaming as she is brutally murdered, and each book contains descriptions of suffering and tragedy...
Finally, the seniors, who with their recruiting ties and med school interviews, are getting ready to move on to the Real World, to Life After Harvard, as the people at Let's Go put it. After college, they enter the land of suits and early mornings and parties that don't stink (literally). And for that, they have to be ready. The first day of school is just practice for that important deal...
...Harvard built the Riverway at Mission Park complex in 1976 after buying up large tracts of land in the neighborhood for the development of Brigham and Women's Hospital...