Word: pit
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...depressed southwestern English county of Cornwall--with the world's biggest greenhouses as its centerpiece. All he needed was the money. Smit turned to private funders and gave them a professional pitch. "I told them, 'We are going to build the Eighth Wonder of the World in a clay pit west of Cornwall, it's going to be wonderful, and you'll want to be a part of it,'" he says. "'Also, we have no business plan.'" Amazingly, the line worked. Smit scraped together more than $100 million, and after a final construction season pummeled by 134 straight days...
...scholastic attainments,” “success in sports,” and a commitment to service, morality and leadership. Blattler, a resident of Brookline, Mass., has a resume that includes a Harvard record and an Ivy League championship in pole vaulting, a place in the pit orchestra playing violin for Gilbert and Sullivan’s “The Mikado,” and summer research trips to Namibia for her concentration, earth and planetary sciences. “I do get sleep,” she said. “I manage to balance everything...
...depressed southwestern English county of Cornwall - with the world's biggest greenhouses as its centerpiece. All he needed was the money. Smit turned to private funders and gave them a professional pitch. "I told them, 'We are going to build the Eighth Wonder of the World in a clay pit west of Cornwall, it's going to be wonderful, and you'll want to be a part of it,'" Smit says. "'Also, we have no business plan.'" Amazingly, the line worked. Smit scraped together more than $100 million, and after a final construction season pummeled by 134 straight days...
...your travels ever influence the menu at your restaurant? -Bryan Johnson, Hamden, Conn.I'm an old-school French chef. I ended my career cooking very rustic French food. So I'm not suddenly going to open Tony's Pan-Asian Fusion Pit. It ain't gonna happen...
...Madness. But its big-ticket failures may in the end have been more telling. For years it offered a law program, but eventually ended up selling it to Pat Robertson. The amount of the possible losses involved are not immediately available, but documentation exists of an even bigger money pit, the City of Faith Medical Center, a combination physical and spiritual healing facility...