Word: ranging
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sojourn in this circle began every Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 8:45 a.m., when Quasimodo climbed the bell tower of Memorial Church and rang the Chem 20 bell. Twenty minutes later, I passed though the entrance of the first circle--coincidentally the entrance to the Science Center--and spent an hour of my valuable time copying blurred illustrations that upon later examination looked like the drunken scribblings of a dyslexic orangutang. Everyone knows that the dyslexic orangutang was never going to score above the median, and since the crafty simian had exchanged his notes for mine...
...Friday the sell-off continued in the morning. By midday a furious rally was under way, recovering more than half of Thursday's losses, but it soon fizzled. When the closing bell rang, the Dow had dropped an additional 34 points, swelling the week's loss to 141 points, the worst ever. Volume set another record, rising to 240 million. At the end of Wall Street's most hectic week, the Dow stood at 1758.72, down 161 from its September high. On the Big Board, losers outnumbered winners 4 to 1 on Friday. The American Stock Exchange and the over...
...impasse. The two met on and off--at times with a few aides, at times alone--well into the night. By Thursday evening, according to Packwood, they were within two hours of a deal that would cut individual taxes and raise business levies by $124 billion. Then the phone rang...
This is the tenth year that the racing pigs have made the Midwest fair circuit, drawing more than 3 million fans so far in eight states ranging from Ohio to Iowa. Holding, formerly advertising director at Heinold, was half jesting in 1976 when he first mentioned to then President Harold Heinold the idea of staging pig races as a way to promote the company's name. "He looked at me and said, 'Work it out for next year.' Just like that." Holding read up on how Pavlov had trained his dogs and then set up a makeshift starting gate...
...didn't claim him until 1959, four years after Mighty Mo was mothballed in Bremerton, Wash. In fact, Kennedy never figured to serve a day on her. He had retired in 1979 and was working as a security guard in the federal court in San Diego when the phone rang on his birthday, Dec. 13, 1984. His wife Marilyn took the call and relayed the unexpected invitation from the Chief of Naval Operations. "You jumped on that like a buzzard on a dead cow," she told him as he went out the door the next morning for his re-enlistment...