Word: olympias
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Said he could hear himself better that way." Tenor Saxophonist Teddy Johnson: "He was always ready for a laugh, always joking, making up nicknames for people. I called him Big Chief." There is wordless comment in the fact that musicians from not only Society Jazz but several other bands (Olympia, Tuxedo) have turned out to make sure that one of their own gets a fitting sendoff...
...most visible Canadian investors are real estate companies. Toronto's Olympia & York Developments Ltd. owns 11 million sq. ft. of prime office space in Manhattan and recently won a competition to develop 6 million sq. ft. more in New York's Battery Park City. Another Toronto company, Cadillac Fairview, is now the largest single developer of luxury condominiums in the Miami area, having close to $300 million worth of housing under construction...
...woman, as in the legend of Pygmalion. The most entertaining example is the life-size doll Olympia, a luscious soprano in Offenbach's Tales of Hoffmann. At the end of every verse in her main aria, however, she droops and swoons until revived by several noisy turns of a crank in her back...
Nevertheless, Gorton, 52, is running almost even in the polls with Magnuson, partly because of an issue that he tends to run around rather than confront directly: the incumbent's age. The Republican organized a 62-mile relay run from Seattle to the state capital of Olympia to file his election papers, running nine of the miles himself. The contrast with the portly Magnuson, who now walks with a shuffle and has a hearing problem, was obvious. Seated in his state office, surrounded by pictures and mementos of the eight Presidents with whom he has served, Magnuson says...
Representing 80 nations, some 5,000 delegates to the eleventh World Energy Conference jammed Munich's giant Olympia Hall last week to listen to calls for action on developing new energy sources. For background reading, the delegates could peruse no fewer than 164 technical papers on subjects ranging from high-voltage energy transmission to windmill turbine technology. On one subject, however, the participants spoke with a single voice: the U.S. is out of step with the rest of the world in the development of nuclear energy...