Word: tower
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When I think of ARCHIE MOORE, an old proverb comes to mind. Suppose you want to build a tower. First you sit down and figure the cost. Then you see if you have enough money to finish it. Otherwise, if you lay a foundation and can't complete the building, everyone will make fun of you. In all the years we talked while Archie was teaching me, he never complained about the years of being the No. 1 contender and being mistreated as champion. All I ever heard were these pieces of the foundation of a great American--the traveling...
...Tower Records, of the six CDs and a movie, three CDs are cheaper by about $1 in the Square than on Newbury Street. One of the movies is more expensive, however, by about...
...have corporate sales which are for all Tower stores in America. But sometimes...[individual store buyers] will put stuff on sale," says Adam C. Standish, supervisor at the Harvard Square Tower Records. "There are occurrences where a CD is on sale at our store but not at another store...
...first Kenyan woman to receive a Ph.D., she founded the women's Green Belt Movement, which has planted 7 million trees in Kenya and inspired similar efforts around the globe. In 1989 her protests forced Moi to abandon a personal plan to erect a 62-story office tower in a Nairobi park. And in 1991 her activism became a political force when she helped start an opposition group called the Forum for the Restoration of Democracy. Once she was teargassed and clubbed unconscious by police. Another time she was arrested and put in a jail cell overnight with no mattress...
...Psychological research sets the conditions under which people will accept or deny social institutions ," he said ."People in the ivory tower have influence; you just can't trace it because it simply disappears into what people believe and understand...