Word: skies
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that's a pie-in-the-sky guesstimation, at best, because every squad--with the possible exception of Brown--has a legitimate shot at the crown in the very short (seven games) Ivy season. Princeton gets the early honors mostly on the strength of a possibly phenomenal recruiting year, with Tiger coach Bill Muse counting on the freshmen to shore up the offense and improve last year's 8-4-3 mark...
...Among De Fontbrune's other interpretations of predictions: a new great war in 1999 (World War III?) after an earlier major conflict (World War II?), and the utilization of nuclear missiles ("After one great massing of soldiers, another greater one is prepared . . . one will see then fire in the sky coursing from a great missile"). Said Le Point: "Fear is becoming a market. One hundred days after having brought Mitterrand to power, our citizens are paying $20 a copy to shudder in horror...
When she talks about herself nowadays, it is to tell about blowing sky high?not remembering her speech?when she presented an award at the Tony ceremonies a few months ago. Or to describe how, on the set of Stab, "I just couldn't get a scene right. The dialogue seemed false. I got madder and madder because I knew the answer lay within me, but I couldn't wrestle it up. I sulked all day?something I never did before. There's a lot of tension toward the end of a film, because the answers have to be there...
Thanks to the sky-high value of the dollar, U.S. businessmen going abroad no longer need to take along a CARE package of cash. The annual survey by Britain's Financial Times reports that London, which last year was the most expensive destination in the world for an American, has fallen to 26th place among 100 major business cities. The cost of bed and breakfast at a first-class London hotel is now only $91.02, as compared with $137 in 1980. Brussels, fifth on the list last year, has plunged to 30th place...
...pyramidal glass roof juts proudly into the sky, 157 ft. its splash of gaily colored panels shimmers in the sun's bright glow. As architecture, the new National Aquarium in Baltimore is striking; as a scientific and educational showcase, it already ranks among the nation's best...