Word: pads
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...tell a great deal about tycoons from those pivotal moments before they became rich. Ross Perot's launching pad was IBM, where he spent his late 20s and early 30s (1957-62) selling computers from the firm's Dallas office. In mid-1962 Perot quit to start Electronic Data Systems, the source of his $3 billion fortune...
...Leverett junior certainly did his part, slamming a low curveball over the fence in the third inning to drive in three runs. The homer gave Harvard a 6-1 lead, which it would happily pad in the fourth, fifth and seventh innings...
...College activism is about idealism," says Harry James Wilson '93, who says he plans to enter academia before trying his hand at elective politics. "It's not a question of trying to pad your resume...
...exactly the kind of pad you would expect from the Adams House sophomore lottery. But then again, Bull doesn't live in Adams House anymore...
...could fail to be inspired by lines like "If you don't try, you can't fail" or "Your thoughts can't soar if you think like a turkey." Certainly it is not possible to resist the wit behind such zingers as "apartment hunting...scouring for a pad" or "Shakespeare ode much to publishers," And even the greatest literature cannot match such insights into the humanity as "Laughter is the shock absorber of life's blows" or "No one is a failure who is enjoying life...