Word: owner
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...current situation is a little more complicated: the chapel has been put on sale because of the poor financial situation of its owner, the Swedenborg School of Religion in Newton. But the congregation has the right of first refusal (that is, they have the chance to counter any offer put on the table), and Harvard has the second right of first refusal. Now that the exterior of the chapel has been preserved, it is unlikely that any major destruction will befall the building, but the congregation rightly wants it to remain as a place of worship...
...Owner Thomas W. Mannion says the pub has one ofthe longest licenses in the greater Boston area,and has been in the same location since the 1930s...
...larceny occurred at the Science Center. The HUPD received a call saying that a laptop was stolen while its owner was in the building. The man chased the people who stole his laptop and was able to retrieve it. HUPD officers were not able to apprehend any suspects...
Even though it's built on the dullest of premises, Roadshow makes for strangely addictive television. Led by Chris Jussel, an affable former New York City gallery owner, it's an unabashedly folksy blend of game show and art-history lecture. Jussel thinks the show has helped democratize the cloistered antiques world while "giving people an opportunity to touch their past." Each week he journeys to a new city, where he gives a quick tour of historical sights and museums. (This summer, when the show's episodes are taped, he'll be hitting Tampa, Fla.; Baltimore, Md.; Des Moines, Iowa...
About five hours north of Yosemite is Virginia City, Nev., where Samuel Clemens adopted his nom de plume. The conventional wisdom is that "Mark Twain" comes from the riverman's term for water two fathoms deep. Joe Curtis, owner of Mark Twain's Bookstore, offers an alternative theory. Clemens used to order his whiskey two shots at a time in Virginia City, telling the bartender to put it on his tab: "Mark me for twain [two]." Twain wrote for the Virginia City Territorial Enterprise in the early 1860s, chronicling the town's gold- and silver-fueled rise. His recollections...