Word: slates
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Someone, however, is doing something to counter this starchy BBC stereotype--the BBC. Through its American cable channel, BBC America, founded two years ago and now in about 12 million homes, the Beeb is recolonizing American tellies with a slate heavy on newer dramas and "Britcoms." These raw, rude, thoroughly unpolite shows open a window on a brand new England, from the gritty Bosnian-war drama Peacekeepers to the Lynchian small-town comic horrors of The League of Gentlemen...
Much of the land is presently used by CSX Transportation (CSXT), and the area is littered by train cars and trucks. Even if Harvard were to buy the lot and slate it for its own development, there is no guarantee that it would be able to rid the area of these vehicles...
...about them, which means it will be easier for the unusual artistic conjunctions the Tate has conjured to jump forward. The art, all post-1900, is organized by subject rather than chronology. There will be nudes and still-life, landscape and history paintings. Thus Richard Long's work Red Slate Circle (1988) is exhibited below Monet's Water-Lilies (after 1916). Pieces by two artists, working at different ends of the century with the idea of pools, housed in a gallery made by two architectural minds working half a century apart with the idea of power. Who knew that modern...
...part of a corrupt election campaign, a slate of candidates threw a party that night for all the delegates. Who wouldn’t vote for the guy who buys the beer? The Harvard delegation attended the party...
...Some of us are committed to finding companies with superior technology," Shah writes in an e-mail message. "Others look to earnings and value, while still others turn to future growth prospects. The end result is that we find and invest in a diverse slate of companies that outperform the general market as a whole...