Word: loftiest
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...loftiest plan I've heard to solve our problems of separation, an Undergraduate Council presidential candidate promised to forge a "Healthier Community." The Crimson derided such plans last week as too "vague." But the paper seized upon the wrong word; it wasn't just a weak choice of adjectives that rendered the platform suspect. The point that painting the whole College as one community might be fraudulent never came up. Yes, students at the Law School or School of Education, usually bound by similar pasts and futures, truly have something. But students here haven't all come from similar backgrounds...
ANOTHER WINNER! In Notebook Contest #5, we asked readers to design a balloon for the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. Of the many John Glenns we received, that sent in by Terence Dungan of New Paltz, N.Y., was the loftiest. "It's...like watching your favorite grandfather go up into space," he says...
...fiery ex-Marine and an avid mountain climber, Hugh McColl Jr. has scaled the Swiss Alps and Tanzania's Mount Kilimanjaro. But his loftiest goal is to lead NationsBank, the Charlotte, N.C., company he has run since 1983, to the summit of American banking. Through more than 50 acquisitions, McColl has turned NationsBank into the third largest U.S. lender (behind Chase Manhattan and Citicorp), with branches in 16 states and $316 billion in assets. And NationsBank stock, which has swelled to $65 billion in total value, makes the bank No. 1 in market capital. "In most of life's endeavors...
...Even the loftiest highflyers have been losing altitude fast. Shares of Netscape, maker of the Navigator Web browser, which opened at $14 last August (after adjusting for a two-for-one split) and peaked in December at $87, closed last week at $48.50. Yahoo!, a vaunted search-engine-software company, jumped from $13 per share to $32.25 when it began trading in April and soon hit a high of $43. Last Friday, however, Yahoo! was searching for the bottom, at $17.50. "The IPOs that came with the most sizzle, like the Internet search engines, have gone on a roller-coaster...
...Leary had agreed to do an issue from his San Diego prison cell. I guess we expected some kind of bleak, jailhouse blues--but no: Doc writes to inform us that the theme for his issue will be "Communication with Higher Intelligence"--an ambitious aim even from atop the loftiest ivory tower. But from behind bars...