Word: tip
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...ecosystem in question once covered the entire tip of Florida -- about 4 ! million acres of wetland stretching from Lake Okeechobee in the north to the Gulf of Mexico in the south. For centuries it was treated like a huge swamp to be drained, farmed and, ultimately, paved. Now the acreage has shrunk to 2 million, and what remains is under pressure from a population growing by 600 people...
...hasn't. As his friend and Lampoon coworker Adam J.B. Lane '93 puts it. "Dave's definitely one of the class go-getters...He juggles well with Perspective and debate and the Lampoon and all his classes. And he also has a social life, so you really have to tip your hat to him. He's also a normal human being...
...anonymous tip that this gentleman had a shady background and based on that information we began doing an investigation," Lt. Rooney said of the probe which eventually led Harvard detectives to Hogue's residence...
...when disco and watered-down rock ruled the radio, a band called Steely Dan was making some of the most elegantly offbeat, wickedly incisive music ever to sneak onto the pop charts. Hits like Reeling in the Years and Rikki Don't Lose That Number were only the tip of the creative iceberg; beneath the taut tempos, cryptic lyrics and refreshingly unfamiliar melodies lurked an arcane, darkly sardonic intelligence summed up by the group's name, which was inspired by the moniker for a sexual appliance in William Burroughs' Naked Lunch...
Harvard police initially investigated Hogue, who served one year of a five year felony burglary sentence in a Utah state prison, after the police received a tip that Hogue was a student at Harvard's Extension School, Lt. Rooney said yesterday...