Word: mount
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Harvard (2-3-1 overall, 1-1-0 Ivy) could not mount an effective counterattack, and B.C. added an insurance goal in the waning minutes for the final margin...
...bills mount, many parents suspect that institutions are kicking up their fees at will, knowing that families will pay almost anything to give their child the cachet of a Harvard or Yale degree. "It's Chivas Regal pricing," says Kalman Chany, president of Campus Consultants Inc., a Manhattan-based financial-aid consulting firm. "The most selective schools can afford to charge what they want because they've got lines out the door of people who want to go there...
Bloomingdale's plans to mount its usual theatrical holiday display of luxury goods. But by the time the gold, frankincense and furs are gone, the mecca for wealthy consumers may be yielding its profits to a new owner. Campeau, meanwhile, must find more ways to meet $1 billion in annual interest payments. Says retailing analyst Walter Loeb: "He's going to have to sell more than just Bloomingdale's to get out of the hole he's dug for himself...
...latest nine schools to acknowledge that they have been contacted by federal investigators are: Brown University, Dartmouth College, Mount Holyoke College, Smith College, Wellesley College and Wheaton College in New England; the University of Pennsylvania and Bryn Mawr College in Pennsylvania, and Randolph-Macon Women's College in Virginia...
...loggers who arrived for work one morning last week in Washington's Mount Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest were greeted by a strange and unexpected sight. Sitting amid the branches of three of the trees they had planned to cut that day, some 60 ft. up in the air, was a form of wildlife they had not previously encountered there: three members of the radical environmental group Earth First. They were perched precariously on narrow plywood platforms with enough food and water to last for at least a week. Dangling from the trees were two banners reading SAVE AMERICA'S FORESTS...