Word: meads
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...story co-op building was originally an American Express Shipping Warehouse, erected by McKim, Mead and White in 1890. Atop it - the crown on this regal brick building - is a roof garden, planted and maintained by one Mary Corliss (to whom I?ve been married for 32 years, but who still looks so young and lovely that someone meeting her recently said she thought Mary was my ?trophy wife?). From Memorial Day to Veterans? Day, for an hour or so each morning and for hours more on weekends, Mary nurses, nurtures and sings show tunes to flowers and trees...
...many as occur in the men's leagues. For women who don't work, tennis is their only outlet. There is no definite reward system in being a mother. With tennis, there is a definite reward system."... One who thinks cutthroat competition for women is bad is anthropologist Margaret Mead. She admits that if women turn their backs on the home and childbearing, they may need sport to give them confidence in their bodies, as men have done since the beginnings of society. But she thinks Americans are terrible sports ("We're always saying, 'Kill the umpire!'"), and she wishes...
...third-level of the building, guests gathered in the Great Hall, a large room designed to look like a medieval mead-hall complete with high ceilings, long tables, dark wood paneling colorful banners and chandeliers...
Fortunes changed last fall, when Kenworth Truck Co., the second largest employer in town, cut production by a third, eliminating 500 high-wage jobs. The Piketon uranium-enrichment plant announced it would cease operations; and Mead Paper, which employs 2,200, told its unions to prepare for hundreds of layoffs...
Would a tax cut help? The local businessmen say yes--extra cash would inspire folks to start buying again. But the views of their employees are more complex. Fresh off the 11 p.m.-to-7 a.m. shift at Mead, Joey Depew, 25, devours a ham-and-cheese omelet at a local luncheonette. He and his wife Christie, who delivers for Pizza Hut, have two small children and are in the process of buying their first home. "A tax cut could help pay the mortgage," says Joey, who goes on to recite by heart most of the numbers from...