Word: pounds
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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During a memorial service yesterday, a steel pin holding the bell's 300-pound clapper in place broke for the second time this year, rendering the regular computer-operated ringing mechanism inoperable, said Marie Cloutier-Diflo, administrative assistant for Memorial Church...
...agency, in Cherry Hill, N.J., requires natural mothers to fill out ten-page medical histories that ask about everything from hay fever and heavy drinking to Down's syndrome and blood transfusions. Genetic counselors are often called in as consultants. "We believe an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure," says agency supervisor Mary Anne Giello...
...earnings debacle was caused partly by fluctuations in the values of the British pound, U.S. dollar and Japanese yen, which left Philips with an estimated $110 million in currency-related losses. But there were other problems. Philips' computer division, for example, has been struggling for years in an increasingly competitive market, and lost money during the most recent quarter...
Late in the second period, Satenstein wasposted up in the hole and had been taking a lot ofabuse from the hole defender. When the All-Easternfreshman was dragged under-water and given a kneeto the face, she surfaced and started to pound onher adversary in a fit of rage. The refereeejected Satenstein for the game for a brutalityfoul...
...largely on the availability of capital. "When you can't buy, you have to persuade and compromise," observes Harry DeAngelo, director of the J. Ira Harris Center at the University of Michigan. While the proxy fight is a less certain instrument than the buyout, notes Harvard finance professor John Pound, "it is much more consistent with the American political system, in which officials should be held accountable to their constituents...