Word: pads
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...giant CH-46 helicopter lifted off slowly from its landing pad inside the U.S. Marine compound, its pilot careful to avoid jerking the huge netted crate that hung like ballast beneath it. With machine gunners at the ready, it whirred low over the beachside terrain and headed for U.S. Navy ships on the horizon, there to set down its cargo just as gingerly. Meanwhile, 400 yds. to the west, a steady stream of landing craft nosed into a heavily fortified jetty and began collecting a seemingly endless line of forklift pallets lashed to more wooden crates. "The beach has been...
...money to pay for a year's education. But the University's financial wizards have pie charts to prove that we're only paying about a third of the "real cost" of being a student. These are the same people who are currently raising $350 million to help pad the ermine-lined vaults of Baybank Harvard Trust: you have to figure they're treating you fairly. So you send off the big check and arrive at Harvard, confident that you have forestalled the dreaded red dot for another semester, that you don't owe Harvard money, but rather, that Harvard...
...when the top two teams in the Ivy Division of the ECAC meet tonight at 7:30 p.m. at Bright Center. Tortorella will probably be watching from the Eli hench Yale dropped its first nine games six in the ECAC-- before freshman Michael Schwalb donned the pad and shut out Colgate, 3-0 the next game and fell 4-3 to lowly Dartmouth, the worst team in the ECAC...
...forward didn't get to pad the stats against the Division 3 Violets, though, because Harvard Coach Frank McLaughlin used his entire bench in a move that sent most of the 400 spectators searching deep into their programs for some back-ground information. Any information...
...like living in a fishbowl." Paulson is building a 10,000-sq.-ft. replica of an antebellum mansion near Savannah that has 2,000 sq. ft. of porches, two man-made lakes, a nine-hole golf course, a tennis court, a boat dock and a landing pad for his five-passenger Bell JetRanger III helicopter. He uses the helicopter to make short hops for business trips and to visit his Hilton Head, S.C., retreat. Paulson also has four other