Word: maximum
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...world in vignettes, making regions characters in a global mini-series (and paying ample attention to non-Western areas). It eschews Ken Burnsian still lifes for a tarantella of computer animation, film clips, re-enactments and folk performances, whirling impatiently like the dervishes and dancers it uses to maximum effect. This mix can shock us into seeing the present in the past, as when Isaacs crosscuts modern Italian hipsters and preening Renaissance Florentines. The conventional re-enactments, however, are like a forced march to colonial Williamsburg...
...money. By any measure, Harvard pays its in-house guards more than the industry standard. Since they are Harvard employees, they are also recipients of generous health and retirement benefits. Because Harvard didn't hire any new guards after 1992, by 1999 all of the guards were earning the maximum hourly wage and working unlimited overtime because of the small, tightly stretched force. Harvard was thus paying an exorbitant amount per hour for security...
...perhaps Larson's main contribution has been her leadership on a young Crimson team. Along with Zotter, Larson has led the squad--which frequently plays up to six freshmen at a time--by example, playing to her maximum each and every...
...that doesn't work, and the ground game is stymied, look for Harvard to run pass plays with maximum blocking protection for Wilford to account for the pass rush of the experienced and talented Colgate defensive line...
...week after the College announced it would reduce the maximum size of blocking groups from 16 to eight, student leaders throughout the House system say they have heard little reaction to the policy change in their Houses, despite widely varied opinions of its merits...