Word: marc
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Visiting Professor of Business Administration Marc J. Epstein has been charged by Los Angeles-based Mitsui Manufacturers Bank with failing to pay the money. The bank's suit seeks to appropriate Epstein's Harvard paychecks in order to recover the bank's money...
...growing number of other earthlings. Not only is Klingon a real language, sort of, it is the fastest growing language in the universe (if you consider that it started with a base line of zero speakers in the mid-1980s). It was invented by a linguist named Marc Okrand, whose business is producing closed captions for television. He happened to be in the Paramount cafeteria having lunch with a friend just when the producers of the film Star Trek II were desperately looking for someone with a Ph.D. to do a bit of Vulcan dialogue. Okrand offered his services...
...idiom's inventor responded with a blank stare. "He doesn't really speak the language, although he does pronounce it much better than I do." Despite his lack of fluency, Okrand is revered by students of the warrior tongue. "When it comes to Klingon," says one disciple, "anything Marc Okrand writes is the word...
...high school barricaded itself against the press last week, Lakewood Mayor Marc Titel feared that the town was "in denial" about the scandal. "What kind of values are we communicating to our kids?" he asked. "There are parents and teachers who are saying, 'This is no big deal.' " For the girls involved, it remains a very big deal. Some of those who complained now endure taunts of "slut." The boys, meanwhile, were cheered when they returned to classes last week. The school is planning several assemblies on date rape and sexual harassment. The first will take place on April...
...Summer is coming up and name of us have interviews. It was a spring thing to do," said sociology concentrator Marc D. McKay...