Word: pours
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...plant old roses with good bloodlines, he explains, and those who go for high-tech hybrid teas with names like Chrysler Imperial-"a rose named after a car, for God's sake." What's different today, he observes, is that gardening has become such a fad. "You can pour vast sums of money into an acre of land and acquire the patina of sophisticated gardening very quickly." Horticultural social climbers speedily master the passwords. "There is a whole hierarchy of color," he says. "White flowers are considered the most prestigious because you have to be more sophisticated to appreciate white...
...first national push for need-blind admissions came in the late 60s and early 70s, when states began to pour money into low-interest loans and grants, Jewett says...
...Dean of Admission, Jewett implemented a need-blind admissions policy. In the 1960s and '70s, when states began to pour money into low-interest loans and grants, Jewett helped make Harvard one of the first colleges to admit applicants completely without regard to financial need. Even in today's environment, when more and more universities are cutting back on educational funding, Harvard remains firmly committed to need-blind admissions...
...white plastic chair by the ice machine at the Highland Motel in Bullhead City, Arizona; hang around the parking lot at the El Rey Motel in Searchlight, Nevada; knock on doors at the Desert Inn Motel in Needles, California, and the sad stories pour forth. There's the fireman who fled his eastern Washington home when his wife started sleeping with his fire-station colleagues. He moved to Alaska, worked security on the pipeline, then drifted south, where he gambles away his earnings as a casino janitor. There's the Michigan supermarket checker whose husband left when she told...
...great return rate on George's initial mailing was enough to attract the attention and bankroll of David J. Pecker, president of Hachette Filipacchi Magazines, the French-owned publisher of 19 magazines, including Elle. Hachette plans to pour as much as $25 million into the new venture and already has pledges for 100 pages of advertising for the first two issues...