Word: poole
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...little train lost in the huge landscape propose the film's overarching theme?India as mysterious and maddening cavern?and then Lean starts the echoes rolling through it. When Mrs. Moore meets Aziz for the first time, the moon is reflected cool and tiny in a shimmering pool. It does not appear again until she has heard the fateful voice of the caves. Then, suddenly, it looms large over the shoulder of a forbidding monolith, itself reminiscent of a moonscape...
...rquez turns to the bizarre frustrations imposed on people, both wealthy and impoverished, who live in isolation from the world at large. There Are No Thieves in This Town (1962) traces the troubles of Damaso, a poor young man with a pregnant wife, who robs the local pool hall and comes away with nothing but three billiard balls. It is bad enough that he cannot sell them; worse, the social life of the town begins to atrophy, since it may take months for new balls to arrive...
...enterprise is what is ruining the banking industry. It has killed the safeguards and ended the longest period of bank stability in our history. Banks are different from other businesses. They are supposed to be a safe repository, an alternative to the mattress and cookie jar and a stable pool of cash that can be called on to fuel the nation's economy. Banks should be the underwriters of the nation's financial security...
Elsewhere in the Ivy League, Yale admitted 34 percent of its 1488 applicants--roughly equal to the number in last year's pool--despite the paralyzing clerical and technical workers' strike it suffered this fall. Officials in New Haven said they deferred just under to percent and rejected the same number...
Brown accepted 20 percent of its 2008 applicants, rejected the same number and deferred about hall of the total pool, admissions officers said...