Word: rundowns
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...index only added to the evidence of vigorous recovery that has been accumulating for the past several weeks. A rundown...
Parcel by parcel, Portman went on to buy a rundown section of Atlanta's main drag, Peachtree Street. Visions of towers danced in his head. One by one they rose to form Peachtree Center-a complex of five office buildings, two hotels, a theater, restaurants and a shopping arcade. Atlantans who visit Portman's hilltop house now joke that he installed a picture window and then built the view to be seen through...
...television setting is "Scoops' Place," a rundown drugstore in the inner city. A young soda jerk named K.O.K. spoons out free banana splits to two buddies who stroll in. Boss "Scoops" calls the boy aside and points out that, although he makes only $1 per hour, K.O.K. has just spent $6 on ice cream for his friends. "Son," says Scoops in a fatherly fashion, "you're supposed to make $4 today. Now you've gotta work two more hours just to get back to zero." Blurts out the incredulous K.O.K.: "Oh, man, hey, I didn...
Francis advised students applying for Congressional internships to prepare resumes of past experience and enclose a writing sample. Conlon agreed, saying "What I keep seeing in resumes is an elaborate rundown of grades, hobbies, and other irrelevant info. What I'm interested in is relevant past experience, such as work in a political campaign...
...work, students will form a small company, buy a rundown house, spend three hours a week fixing it up, and then try to sell it. The university aims to teach that "there is still worth in the old notions of independence, pride in workmanship and craftsmanship." Perhaps self-reliance is a trait that can not be taught as a sort of fourth R, but a university determined to give students the broadest outlook could hardly try to teach anything more important...