Word: stocked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Harvard owns about 310,000 shares, or roughly 1 percent, of the corporation's stock, making it the 19th largest shareholder. Also, Robert G. Stone '45, who sits on Harvard's seven-member Corporation, is on the Pittston board of directors...
Giuliani claimed that Dinkins was seeking to evade taxes in a murky sale to his son of stock in a black-controlled broadcasting company. He followed up by disclosing that Dinkins had not listed on required financial-disclosure forms a vacation trip to France paid for in part by a close friend. Though Dinkins provided plausible explanations for the lapses, the explanations were slow in coming. With more time, Giuliani might have been able to capitalize on his reputation as one of the nation's toughest lawmen. When the candidates squared off in televised debates, Dinkins complained that Giuliani...
Proposition 1-2-3 would have allowed some tenants in rent-controlled housing to buy their apartments, thus removing them from the city's stock of affordable housing. Such a change, critics argued, would drive low-income families out of the city by giving landlords an extra incentive to rent to the wealthy...
Leaving the passions of the '60s aside, let us realize just where these omnipresent literary phrases originate. Professor Blumenthal is an associate professor of English, and to pretend that these quotations are his ready witticisms is to ignore the critical fact that they are also his stock and trade, the entire basis for his job here at Harvard. Freud's word was und, not oder...
...dining car are the softly lighted oil paintings, the white linen, the oversize European-style forks and knives, the private-stock California sparkling wine, the seven stately courses of dinner (a just and seemly number, the traveler comes muzzily to feel), the white and the red wines, the port, and, yes, please, the cognac. Conversation ramifies, and 2:30 a.m. ticks roguishly into view. The foresighted journeyer will have made an appointment to use his car's shower next morning, and the porter will knock at the proper time with a bathrobe. At breakfast, a driven soul may have...