Word: riche
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Perched in remote splendor on a 7,300-ft. mesa between New Mexico's Jemez Mountains and the Pojoaque Valley, Los Alamos has neither rich nor poor among its 15,000 inhabitants...
...sublime; Don Drysdale is only beautiful." He had planned an introductory chapter on the sublime, but as it stands we can still appreciate something of the importance of the word from its role in the first two sections. The whole book, in fact, stands that way--so suggestive and rich a vein of history that other scholars will work it for years to come...
...return for stock options). His first move was to stop construction of a small new branch, double its size (and cost) and convert it into the national prototype of regional shopping centers with ample parking, underground deliveries, competing stores in the same complex. Unable to invade the rich San Francisco market directly, Carter doubled his sales by merging with Hale Bros later bought up the Dohrmann Hotel Supply chain for its hidden asset: a 24% interest in the highly profitable Emporium Capwell Co., northern California's top retailer (ten stores...
...shop's aged proprietor, Polish Actress Ida Kamińska, cannot comprehend Tono's function and assumes that he has been sent by the kindly government to be her assistant. She needs help; instead of being a rich source of profit, the shop consists of a few dozen empty button boxes, and only Jewish charity keeps it going. A deep affection grows up between the little carpenter and the woman-with which the movie begins to grow less funny. The climax comes with a roundup of Jews for the concentration camps. Should Tono risk hiding his friend...
...schematic terms, it was a matter of Buck trying to persuade Coolidge. Each man had varying traditions and forces influencing him, but broadly speaking Buck was for defending Furry, and Coolidge (and the Corporation) was initially unsure. It is the explanation of what caused the Corporation, Harvard's rich, conservative, remote administrators, to act in defense of a radical associate professor of Physics on the unfamiliar field of free speech which makes the case so fascinating...