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...moment, they also had the 'aha!' moment," recalls Kirk Watson, a lawyer and then community leader who later became Austin's mayor. As luck would have it, Austin was in the market for a new airport to replace the 63-year-old one the city had long outgrown. Bergstrom, with its 12,250-ft. runway, on which giant B-52 bombers could land, was ideal for the jumbo jets that carry the international air-cargo traffic Austin wanted to attract. So the city seized the opportunity, wading through mounds of federal red tape to have the base transferred...
Lucky, having outgrown the White House, began an unfettered life among the cedar trees on Reagan's 688 acres above the Pacific. The President called it "dog heaven." Likewise, Reagan was entering, at least for the moment, some kind of political Promised Land. Wirthlin's findings showed Americans gave Reagan an 81% approval rating for his performance at the Geneva summit and a 77% overall job approval. Once again, his popularity achieved a record high...
Talk about your Rasterbation obsession in the dining hall and you may get a couple of funny looks (or maybe not). Although it sounds a bit illicit, rasterbating isn’t at all. It’s actually a funky way to spice up dorm rooms that have outgrown the Newbury Comics poster selection. The Rasterbator uploads jpeg files from your computer and magically changes them to Roy Lichtentstein-esque pictures composed of millions of dots...
...today’s environment, hospitals have to continuously update their facility in order to keep up with delivering ideal care,” he said. “At MGH [Massachusetts General Hospital], where I work, we have completely outgrown the outpatient space...
...Harvard career, my—and, I suspect, many people’s—trips home have become progressively shorter and less frequent. With every trip, the clothes I’ve abandoned in my closet look shabbier and lonelier, and the books on my shelves more outgrown; with every trip, I am struck by the businesses that have closed in my hometown and by the new houses that loom, raw, over freshly-seeded lawns. I can no longer name the children who bicycle in wobbly circles in the street. I can no longer identify the dogs that strain...