Word: question
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Anderson admitted that a postseason invitation was probably out of the question for his highly-touted squad...
...impossible to answer this question without destroying two myths about Frank Lorenzo, Eastern Airlines and the machinists' strike...
...Harvard doesn't, another trip to the NCAA finals may be out of the question...
...does Lorenzo want to destroy Eastern, the seventh largest carrier in the United States, or at least reduce it to a shell of its current self? Lorenzo answered this question himself when he bought Eastern in 1986, "We're going to paint the tails of the airplanes and move them over to Continental...
...high plaster elephant standing guard in the Place de la Bastille. Commissioned by the triumphant Emperor Napoleon, eventually to be recast in the bronze of captured cannons, the elephant was designed to make Parisians forget their revolutionary past and dream of an imperial future. Its real destiny -- like the question of what to remember -- proved quite different. "By 1830, when revolution revisited Paris, the elephant was in an advanced state of decomposition," writes Harvard historian Simon Schama. "One tusk had dropped off, and the other was reduced to a powdery stump. Its body was black from rain and soot...