Word: legos
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Some describe sackler Museum, down the street from the Carpenter Center, as a glorified Lego set. Its stripes were originally supposed to be pink and green to match the rooftiles of nearby Memorial Hall. But since pink and green bricks weren't structurally sound enough, the University had to settle for its second choices, orange and gray...
...January-March Emergency Preparedness Digest. This headline overlaps a picture of a kneeling figure in a yellow-orange spacesuit, the kind sported by Dustin Hoffman in the recent film Outbreak. The suit on the cover has more of a bubble shaped helmet, though, like the little plastic helmets of Lego spacemen...
Marriage is not about making a high score on a compatibility test. It is a lifetime commitment to build a relationship and is somewhat like undertaking a Lego project without instructions. In addition, those who are outside the marriage castle are eager to get in, but those who are already inside are eager...
...were these spin doctors trying to fool? As it turned out, Endeavour's exquisitely trained crew made Mission Impossible seem as simple as building a Lego-block spaceship. The "Dr. Goodwrenches," as Mission Control dubbed them, not only breezed through every job on their work order and a few more on the "just in case" list, but they also made it look like fun. "Piece of cake!" shouted Kathryn Thornton, perched atop the shuttle's 50-ft. robot arm as she sent a mangled solar-energy panel off into space like a falconer letting her bird take wing...
...Nabisco to become chairman and CEO of IBM, the once great computer giant that has lost $8.37 billion so far this year. In June a troubled Westinghouse Electric asked Michael H. Jordan, a partner at the New York City investment firm Clayton Dubilier & Rice, to succeed outgoing chairman Paul Lego. Former Union Pacific chairman Michael Walsh replaced James Ketelsen at Tenneco, a Houston-based auto-parts, shipbuilding and natural-gas conglomerate. Outsider Stanley Gault left retirement to take charge of laggard Goodyear. And Lawrence Bossidy, a General Electric veteran was recruited for the top job at Allied Signal, whose business...