Word: milles
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sure it would change people's opinions," said Alvin R. Cabrera '00, a Lowell House resident. "It's run-of-the-mill evangelical text...
...text was more than run-of-the-mill: it was targeted. Wishnatsky emphasized his Harvard connection throughout the letter by drawing attention to his career as an undergraduate, his Ph.D. in political science and the Veritas motto. In his e-mail message, Wishnatsky wrote that he remembered Harvard as "morally sick," and expressed fears that...
Carrier could solve this problem by controlling humidity. But in '06, a cotton mill in South Carolina gave him a new challenge--heat. "When I saw 5,000 spindles spinning so fast and getting so hot that they'd cause a bad burn when touched several minutes after shutdown, I realized our humidifier was too small...
...than 140,000 houses around the world, Levitt & Sons was sold to ITT Corp. for $92 million in stock, most of which went to him. That fortune bought, among other things, a 237-ft. yacht, La Belle Simone, named for his third wife, and a 30-room mansion in Mill Neck, N.Y. But the deal barred him from the domestic construction business for 10 years. Within four years, the ITT stock, which he had been using as collateral to build subdivisions in places like Iran, Venezuela and Nigeria, lost 90% of its value. When those foreign projects foundered...
Though it's hard to believe today, discount retailing was a controversial concept when it began to gain ground in the '50s at stores such as Ann & Hope, which opened in a reclaimed mill in Cumberland, R.I. Traditional retailers hated it, and so did manufacturers; it threatened their control of the marketplace. Most states had restrictions on the practice...