Word: shades
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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While knee injuries to Stanford's All-American junior forward Kristin Folkl and All-American senior forward Venessa Nygaard make the Crimson's task at least a shade easier, it will take a season's worth of effort all wrapped into one game in order for Harvard to pull off one of the biggest upsets in college basketball history...
...mean the mundane frivolity with which analysts have already started cluttering newspapers and websites nationwide, such as: Crimson versus Cardinal--which is the truest shade of red? Or the suggestion that Harvard and Stanford should compare GPAs rather than play a game...
...touching story about a tree that gives everything to a child, including shade and fruit," Chen said. "When the child becomes an old man all he has left is a stump. He says to the tree `I've taken everything from you.' The tree replies, `You can still use me.' The last thing the tree gives the weak old man is a seat to sit down...
...print these days. A former Journal reporter and a winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Kann is considered a brilliant journalist but a less than stellar CEO. While the company has seen 9% annual average revenue growth over the past decade, its 1996 earnings of $190 million are only a shade better than those of 1986, $183 million. While Cox calls Kann a "nice guy," he also says, "Kann is not the person who should be leading the company into the 21st century. He's not a good Ceo." That contrasts with the views of other family members...
...excluded from the lavish world that Norfleet has put on display. Two women's backs block the foreground. All we catch is the smoke of their cigarettes trailing up into the sky. One woman, her skin as taught as plastic surgery might allow, stares virtually through us. Her sunglasses shade her from the sun and the world as the viewer knows...