Word: precious
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sales of $80 million. William Alderdice, the company's chief executive, bragged that IGBE was the biggest gold and silver dealer in the U.S. In television commercials and ads splashed across such newspapers as the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal, IGBE offered to sell precious metals at exceptionally low prices. There was just one catch: customers had to wait several months for delivery of the coins or bullion...
...more generous portion of that precious commodity might also have spruced up The Love You Make, subtitled "An Insider's Story of the Beatles." Co-Author Peter Brown went to work for Brian Epstein when he was running the record department at one of the family music stores in Liverpool. Managing a scraggly rock quartet was a sideline. Epstein exalted the Beatles, of course, and was consumed by them. He was smitten with them all, and almost crazily in love with John Lennon. Brown attended at the beginning of all this and stayed past the end, when the Beatles...
...feelings that survivors of a nuclear holocaust might feel. The production has been termed an "evacuation party," and for the first hall at least, the action revolves around a purpoted nuclear attack, a pre attack evacuation and life in a bomb shelter. But at its worst Out Out becomes precious, a manipulative revival-house sing along, a punked-out version of Hair or Godspell brimming with those works' combination of rebel-with a cause naivete and we have seen the enemy and he lives in suburbia" pseudo-sophistication...
...throughout my graduate education, I speak not only of her renowned teaching abilities but also of her scholarly contribution to the field. In her serious attention to women's studies, in her fine teaching talents and in her open enthusiastic human approach, Professor Klein has provided one of the precious few role models for graduate and undergraduate students at Harvard. It is therefore disheartening for me--as a scholar as a prospective university professor and as a woman--to confront this blatant disregard of academic talent in the politics of the Harvard community. Rebecca Klatch Teaching Fellow
...most things better than the Government, the Treasury Department announced last week that it has enlisted a private company to boost the lackluster business in U.S. gold medallions. The coins, previously sold only by the Postal Service, will now be distributed by J. Aron & Co., a Manhattan-based precious-metals dealer, and sold by some 3,000 banks, brokerage-house branches and coin shops...