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...bristles whenever she hears the term lady editor, lady painter, lady doctor, lady lawyer; they are, she will insist with quiet fury, editors or painters or doctors or lawyers who also happen to be women. Active, dedicated women-and lucky ones, she will often silently tack...
...ticker. They asked where the rest of the machine was. He ad-libbed, said it had been knocked over and was being repaired. They offered to repair the machine themselves, and Dietrich had to retrieve it from the Hughes suite. Finally, Dietrich took a more direct tack, threatened to complain to state officials if Hughes could not get service-and the machine was quickly hooked up beside Hughes' bed. He lost some $5,000,000 by ignoring expert advice and playing the market based on his own readings off the ticker...
...scaled the Crimson steps looking like a suburban squire should, work-booted, wearing nondescript dungarees and a good sweater gone bad. With eyes looking out from a face somewhere between a hawk's and a gnome's, he glanced at the fading pictures of fading editors on our tack-marked cork bulletin board, and asked the photographer "How did you get those black borders on them?" Mechanical details and competence in mastering them impressed him--part of the reason he wrote Rabbit Redux was his vision of Rabbit as a linotyper...
...aftermath of the Pakistani army's rampage last March, a special team of inspectors from the World Bank observed that some cities looked "like the morning after a nuclear at tack." Since then, the destruction has only been magnified. An estimated 6,000,000 homes have been destroyed, and nearly 1,400,000 farm families have been left without tools or animals to work their lands. Transportation and communications systems are totally disrupted. Roads are damaged, bridges out and inland waterways blocked...
...mainly a running team, the scouts say that Smith will have to brush up on his pass protection. Even so, most agree that he "plays like a pro already." McKenzie, equally devastating at cutoff and down field blocking, was key to undefeated Michigan's vaunted running at tack. According to the scouts, he is still a growing boy>and will have no trouble adding the necessary 20 lbs, or so to play in the pros...