Word: sound
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...whether students like it or not, the student and humanities centers seem destined to be built. Peter J. Riley of Harvard Real Estate (HRE)--which manages Memorial Hall for FAS--says that a feasibility study completed last week concluded that the changes are sound, and Jewett says the plan is just waiting for funds...
EVEN after making these arguments, I am certainly not sanguine--especially after all the obfuscation on this issue--that sound arguments will move the faculty to a more positive sense of its mission. Rather, in any institution the techniques of maintaining viability reside in an early recognition of the danger signs...
...trained bell ringer--usually a roofer from International Service Systems--climbs the tower to sound the chimes by hand. The bells are rung at a signal from the ground crew, which maintains communication with the ringer by telephone...
...Democratic leadership, House majority leader Tom Foley should emit that almost audible hum of ambition that can be heard at the upper reaches of political power. But no, not a sound. It took considerable pushing and prodding to get him to enter politics at all. And when he did jump ( in, it was "accidents," he insists, that kept advancing his career. "The important thing," he says, "is to be prepared when an opportunity comes your...
...people moved out of the area than moved in for the first time since the Depression years of the 1930s. In that climate, voters bought the promises of Romer and Pena that a new airport would mean jobs and prosperity. "What you heard today from the voters was the sound of Denver taking off!" shouted Pena on election night. Branding such talk a "psychological aphrodisiac," retired Rear Admiral Richard Young, who led the opposition, declared, "Somehow, by voting for the airport, there is the feeling everybody is going to be jump- started, and everyone is going to be prosperous...