Word: leviathans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Committee, and that's what I will be." Whatever it was supposed to mean Louise Day Hicks's victorious burble sums up her mandate from the voters of Boston. Disencumbered of Arthur Garland's opposition and with four newly elected colleagues still huddling in her shadow, Boston's political Leviathan will be making or breaking school policies all by herself for the next two years...
...Gasping Leviathans. But modern air conditioning began with the discovery that cooling was not enough; it was also necessary to control the humidity. In 1902 Willis Carrier, who is said by his corporate heirs to be air conditioning's Edison, designed his first system for a Brooklyn printing plant (muggy air was wrinkling the paper for Judge magazine). In this system, coils both cooled the air and condensed the moisture out of it. But progress was slow at first. It was 1914 before the first home air conditioner-a huge, gasping leviathan-was installed in the Minneapolis home...
Joan of the Angels? (Film Polski; Telepix) is a beautiful, full-bodied young woman possessed by eight demons. Almost proudly, she rattles off their names-Balaam, Isacaaron, Behemoth, Gressil, Dog's Tail, Amon, Leviathan, and Asmodeus, demon of lust. Asmodeus, of course, possesses many women. But Joan (Lucyna Winnicka) is no common wench: she is the mother superior in a Roman Catholic convent of Ursuline nuns...
CHARISMA: And I have a Leviathan to call my own. (embrace...
...corporation is a modern leviathan that has greater impact upon the lives and fortunes of Americans than any other force outside Government. The 500 largest U.S. corporations embrace nearly two-thirds of all nonagricultural economic activity, employ one in every seven U.S. workers, wield massive economic power over the whole U.S. economy. How are corporations using that power? What problems has it created...