Word: rome
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Much of the class's enthusiasm can be seen in the number of those returning and their gift-giving. The Class of 1934--which entered college during the depression years--boasts the highest proportion of benefactors. Pescosolido intends to endow a chair for the study of Rome's contribution to Western civilization. "You take extra pride if you've been successful in life and can do some good for Harvard," the Ipswich resident explained...
...coax the Japanese into allowing the yen to rise in value. The task has not been easy. As one American economist points out, the Japanese Finance Ministry "likes to study every issue for a decade or so." But now, after a series of meetings in Washington, Tokyo, Hawaii and Rome, a deal appears to have been struck. It is expected to be announced this week...
...talk apparently made an impact. So did the U.S. suggestion that a greater role for the yen in world finance would mean that Japan would become the second largest shareholder in the World Bank, a prestigious position long sought by the Japanese. At a meeting of economic officials in Rome last week, the two nations wrapped up most of the final details for an agreement...
...years later, the Soviets had smashed all the way to the Polish frontier; the Americans had pushed northward to the gates of Rome; fleets of Allied bombers were steadily pulverizing all the major cities of Germany. But Hitler's battle-hardened force of 7 million men still dominated an empire extending 1,300 miles from the Atlantic to the Dnieper, and his scientists were on the verge of unsheathing their promised victory weapons, the long-range V-1 buzz bomb...
...connects the two main gates. Though it was designed for a practical purpose, to divert the eye from overhead power lines, fantasy has overtaken function. The fair's master architects, Perez Associates, claim that the Wonderwall was inspired by Piranesi's etching of the Circus Maximus in Rome, but the multicolored Styrofoam and Fiberglas-mesh structure looks more as if it had been dreamed up in a Bourbon Street bar by the design team of Dali and Disney. Grecian urns and Roman busts sit among the rooftops; gilded cherubs toot their horns; alligators double as seats; a peacock...