Word: loring
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Showing more versatility than flash, Brown climbed up AT&T's corporate telephone pole step by step, going through 23 jobs in nine cities. He became president of Illinois Bell Telephone in 1969 and earned a place in AT&T lore by making service calls during a repairmen's strike. After becoming chief financial officer of the parent company, he developed innovative ways to reduce AT&T's debt. As president, he began pushing AT&T forward rapidly in such advanced fields as fiber optics and electronic voice recognition...
...questions come from six categories: geography, history, art and literature, science and nature, entertainment, sports and leisure. In addition to the original game, there is now a Silver Screen edition of movie lore. Two versions now available in Canada, a Sports edition and one full of the esoterica beloved by the baby-boom generation, will soon be released...
Mowat's adventure had prejudiced beginnings. Responding to complaints from hunters, his employers hoped he would prove wolves, whose bad reputation in lore and legend ever precedes them, were responsible for the decimation of the caribou herds of the tundra and offer a justification for lupine slaughter. Mowat found, in stead, that man was the predator, that the wolves, besides being agreeable and intelligent in their domestic ways, performed an invaluable Darwinian function in selecting out the unfit deer. All this Ballard shows in images of great but distinctly unsentimental beauty, stressing the contrast between the blundering ways...
...environment nuclear freeze Central America and whales. Soon students trickle in for the group's inaugural meeting each for a different reason, P.J. Kenney's Common Knowledge uses this fictitious organization to effectively examine why students are drawn to campus political groups a 1980's response to the lore of campus activism in the 1960s...
...sandwich shop, also called Elsie's, features many of the items that made the Square original part of Harvard lore--the "Fresser's Dream" sandwich, appelstrudel. Elsie's coffee, and the ever-present "Roast Beef Special...