Word: tower
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...intellectual and political implications of the U.N., and the role the United States plays within it, until I attended a conference on international relations this fall. The experience of viewing internationalism from a much more isolationist perspective than my own taught me an important lesson about the Ivory Tower and its dangers...
...shorter than the public's, which means that even promising bands don't have a chance to develop followings. "A major label will sign an alternative-rock band and put in six months of invested time," says Wendy Powell, assistant to the senior vice president of retail sales at Tower Records. "Then, if they are not making superstar sales, they stop pushing them, and they become a write...
Dermody founded the Children's Cabinet in 1985 to coordinate local agencies serving the needs of children in the Reno area. It now helps 12,000 people annually. "This is like a control tower for children's services," Dermody says. "Our concept enables children and families to get help faster and more efficiently." The model is being studied by other communities in Nevada, as well as in North Carolina and Colorado...
...doing--even for someone who's not afraid to read a manual. Then there's the bandwidth problem. Downloading full-length music CDs over even a high-speed modem will clog your phone line for a lot more hours than it takes to drive to the nearest Tower Records and back. That's assuming you can find a full-length version of the music you want. The RealAudio versions of songs that most Websites make available are hardly CD quality, and the big music companies are careful to chop at least 30 seconds off any song they send over...
...course, many malls across America have been selling Christmas merchandise for months now. But Harvard Square--even with Tower Records, the Gap and all--is one of America's last vestiges of anything approaching village shopping. You can purchase every present you need within a space of a few blocks from such one-and-only stores as Wordsworth Abridged, Cardullo's and the Coop. When the snow begins to fall, you almost feel like you're on the set of "It's a Wonderful Life," with the goodness of humanity surrounding...