Word: pilings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...first game, Harvard's bats rode the momentum they acquired in Wednesday's 27-run blitz of MIT to pile on 18 runs and give starter Frank Hogan (7-2) an easy win. The Big Green made it close in the nightcap, but timely hitting and stellar defense handed the sweep to the Crimson...
...managed-care insurers that compete today in California will be concentrated into seven to 10 by 2005. Such giant combines might be able to hike premiums while squeezing spending on patient care even tighter in an effort to rebuild their margins--and continuing to let their chief executives pile up personal fortunes in salary and stock. One survey found that the salaries of HMO chiefs averaged 62% higher than those earned by the heads of other corporations of comparable size...
Scott's name came up again last week, with the release of a pile of memos from 1993 and 1994 in which she outlined ways to court the President's political supporters with visits to the White House mess, special policy briefings, trinkets, White House tours and the like. Of particular interest to congressional investigators is her proposal that the White House also set up "links" with government agencies, so it could obtain "information/resources" for those early supporters--a plan that sounds very much like trading official favors for contributions. Republicans found the documents highly provocative. "When it involves using...
...exhibition hours lest it attract a crowd of Minneapolitans struck by the angularity of the thing, the openness, the vocabulary of liquidity. Minneapolis, not St. Paul, is a mecca for performance artists, people who can't sing or dance or write or act but who can crawl through a pile of truck tires wearing a shower curtain and wave a flashlight and say things. Minneapolitans lean forward and watch them, perspiring, afraid that some subtlety may escape them. St. Paulites look at each other and say, "Whose idea was this...
Then, a hero rose from amongst the tortured masses. George Economou 100, an always enterprising young lad, ventured from the attic of Thayer's 5th floor to investigate the conspicuous absence of his housing verdict. Arriving on the 1st floor, he noticed the pile of mysterious envelopes and watched as an innocent custodian moved to dispose of them. Boldly intervening, George snatched the envelopes back from the brink of oblivion and confirmed that they were, in fact, the much awaited housing results. A lesser man would have simply removed his own envelope. George is not a lesser man. He removed...