Word: pens
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...chin is cupped in one hand, a ball-point pen in the other, and opened on his lap is a large notebook with lined pages. Occasionally he stirs, his eyes focus, and in tidy, cramped handwriting he adds a sentence or two to the notebook, already largely filled. To a visitor the pages look vaguely familiar. Then realization dawns. The black-inked notations and tidy sketches of winged and wheeled vehicles, streamlined contours and odd mechanisms are startlingly reminiscent of the famous illustrated notes penned by Leonardo da Vinci five centuries...
Joseph R. Palmore '91 Night Editors: Tara A. Nayak '92 Susan E. Owen '92 P. Peter Pen '93 Eric S. Solowey '91 Maggie S. Tucker '93 Rebecca L. Walkowitz '92 Editorial Editors: Joshua M. Sharfstein '91 Feature Editors: Jonathan S. Cohn '91 Matthew M. Hoffman '91 Photo Editors: William H. Bachman '92 David Herne '93 Lydia S. Hoff '92 Debra A. Schafer '93 Laura E. Smith '91 Ali F. Zaidi '92 Kimberly A. Ziev '93 Business Editors: Michael S. Harwayne '91 Sarah B. Kirshbaum '93 Paul G. Perez '88 Stuff Chairs: Julian E. Barnes '93 Lan N. Nguyen '93 Copy...
...relationship with Cardmembers," reads an internal marketing piece. "In time, we plan to offer several savings and investment products" -- IRAs and annuities, for example. With millions of affluent cardholders, Amex can quickly accumulate tens of billions of dollars in deposits with nary a bank branch or broken ball-point pen...
...rabbit chop or a wagging finger when he wants them to remember who is boss. His probing, dark brown eyes are constantly scanning his listeners, looking by turns stern, quizzical, amused, playful. When eyes meet, they both challenge and hint at shared confidences. Whatever lies nearby -- a fountain pen, a gray glasses case from a Paris optician, his gold-rimmed bifocals -- quickly becomes a prop for Gorbachev's one-man show. When the hands are at rest, his thumbs twiddle, not so much in impatience as with excess energy. He modulates his baritone voice for maximum effect, sometimes dropping...
...forceful silent march raised hopes that this week's parliamentary debate on immigration and integration would produce a moderate consensus, which has so far proved elusive, on how to tackle these prickly issues. But that is not likely to stop the National Front. Le Pen's forces, always part of the problem, seem uninterested in any solution...