Word: properous
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...parking freeze has been in effect for 15 years, and the state has not done its proper enforcement in all of that time," McManus said...
...current lawsuit is the second filed by CCLN members against construction of the garage. Last October, the organization initiated legal action against the city and the Athenaeum Group, the project's local developer, charging that construction began without proper licensing...
...been particularly widespread in the past few weeks, ever since it was disclosed that Sotheby's had lent Australian entrepreneur Alan Bond $27 million in 1987 to buy what became the most expensive painting of all time, Van Gogh's Irises. But Sotheby's defends its policy as right, proper and indeed inevitable. Guarantees are given "very sparingly," CEO Ainslie said last week. "It is unusual for more than one or two paintings in a sale to be guaranteed." Ainslie rejects any comparison to margin trading. "We do not make it a standard policy to loan 50% against anything...
...would lead this crusade has the proper mettle -- or at least the proper brass -- for the job. He is none other than Tom Wolfe, apostle of the New Journalism, archaeologist of radical chic and, most recently, best-selling author of Bonfire of the Vanities (1987), which gleefully pilloried the greed and corruption of New York City life. Wolfe's summons to revolution, published in the November Harper's, pinpoints a new and surprising target: his fellow American novelists. This latest bonfire is already throwing off a lot of heat...
...jacket. This is a holy war. The weather won't stand in our way. In fact, the aforementioned Adams House sorceress plans to call for a hurricane. Rejoice in the storm! The 150 m.p.h. winds--ordered to blow in the proper direction, of course--will turn the measliest Harvard screen pass into a potential 30-yard gain. We won't even need to tackle Yale's running backs, as the wind will push the Elis back into their own end zone for a Harvard safety...