Word: slews
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...cause of Getman's woes is a slew of Crimson injuries--midfielder Nick Hotchkin is the only booter to pull through the first eight games without some sort of bump or bruise. As a result of all these fitness problems, Harvard has yet to start the same line-up twice...
...return, the franchisees often get a slew of benefits. They may buy not only a product or a name but a whole image and way of doing business. Many companies help their franchisees with almost every aspect of the operation. Says Stanley Williams, assistant director of communications for the Washington-based International Franchise Association: "The typical person starting a small business may be a good mechanic, cook or barber, but he doesn't know how to pick a location, buy supplies, hire and train workers and do his taxes. Franchising supplies this expertise...
Dean of the Faculty A. Michael Spence says that it is not unusual for departments to experience a slew of retirements at once. "The problem is when you get a little behind, and then you have to put your foot on the accelerator. That's what happened in both History and English," Spence says...
...ziggurat with type stacked in surprising ways. For a poster meant to express the idea of summer, a fragment of architectural statuary is enclosed within a flaming triangle, bracketed by scratched asymmetrical bars top and bottom, placed over a regular field of tiny squares and beneath an action-painting slew of paint drips. Instead of hokey chaos, it is jam-packed, allusive, improbably coherent...
...feels like the end of the world. In any event, the wind doesn't "sing" through the Aleppo pines in these parts so much as it tries to uproot them (the hardest evidence of its vigor is on the barn's tin roof; but for the weight of a slew of dead tires, nature would snatch away that galvanized hat). Violets grow in the yard year-round and tulips in spring. Off in one direction the Whetstone Mountains glower; in another, the Empire Mountains; in another, the Huachucas; in another, the Dragoons, big and little. Birds in the air include...