Word: towers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...athletic tower of strength at Deerfield his P.G. year. McDermott won letters in basketball and track, as well as Most Valuable Defensive Player on the football team, MVP in basketball, and yet another special award in track...
...fear of being isolated from the outside world is perhaps the second major factor which encourages professors to get away. Like many students who are concerned about being shut up in an ivy tower, they may fear that the Harvard environment shelters them from the realities of life, fosters parochial attitudes, and stifles creativity...
...enemies. Consumer groups oppose the price increases as excessive, while the gas industry wants immediate deregulation to stimulate new production. Indeed, the compromise had scarcely been issued before it was denounced by a collection of 18 Senators ranging from the liberal Ted Kennedy of Massachusetts to the conservative John Tower of Texas. Said Ohio's Howard Metzenbaum, a leader in the fight against gas deregulation: "It's really an amazing coalition we have put together...
...would-be climbers, tightrope walkers, King Kong and New York tourists, it is the World Trade Center, at 1,350 ft. the second tallest building in the world, behind only Chicago's Sears Tower (1,454 ft.). To Germans, the 110-story double monolith looming over Lower Manhattan is a tongue twister: Das Welthandelzen-trum. The translation is of more than casual interest to the Deutsche Bank of Frankfurt, which in terms of assets (about $50 billion) ranks fourth in the world, after San Francisco's Bank of America, New York's Citibank and France...
...five men strolled so casually toward their getaway car that the tower guard assumed they were departing visitors. But on the next day the fugitives' car had a flat tire. Marine Sergeant John F. Lyons, 24, heading from his home in Yuma, Ariz., to visit relatives in Nebraska, stopped to help. Lyons, his wife Donnelda, 24, and their 22-month-old son Christopher were all shot to death. A niece of the Lyons, Teresa Tyson, 16 (no kin to the Tisons), was wounded in the hip and was later found in the desert, having bled to death...