Word: rick
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Saturday's game, the Crimeds were led by junior Alan Leo, who went four-for-five with two doubles, and the deft fielding and pitching of sophomore Rick Burnes...
...make a stop at the showroom of French designer Thierry Mugler. She loves shopping at the pricey places--Versace, Fendi, Chanel. Her taste in clothes, however, isn't always as sure as her taste in music. She tries on a floor-length purple coat that looks like something Rick James would have worn to Louis XIV's coronation. "Oh, my God!" she exclaims, loving it. Next, a lumpy bright orange coat that makes her look like a citrus industry spokeswoman...
...been successfully upgraded. We are rather impressed by HASCS's hard work on the third and final stage of the e-mail upgrade. The system is now complete with a "redundancy" feature so that any one glitch will not down the entire Harvard network, as confirmed by Rick Osterberg '96, director of residential computing support. And while "you can never foresee problems, "Osterberg said, "we can [now] recover from them much more quickly." The upgrade has additionally upped the system's speed, reducing waiting time. We hope that the promised improvements herald a new era in HASCS stability...
...sale such subsidiaries as Electronic Data Systems, Hughes Aerospace and a part of its Delphi parts division, GM is betting its future solely on its ability to sell automobiles at reasonable profit, something it has not done in North America since Cadillacs had fins. Says Rick Wagoner, president of GM's North American operations: "It's a watershed year for us to show that we can do great products. It's the freshman class of a new generation...
...Franzen's gloomy observation has not deflected him or three other gifted writers of his acquaintance: Donald Antrim, Rick Moody and David Foster Wallace, last year's young literary comet. Only two months after Franzen's complaint, Wallace made a connection with Infinite Jest, his 1,000-page opus about an early 21st century North America splintered by drugs, fanatics and a business ethic so venal that even the months of the year have product names...