Word: tubs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...support of a University-wide fund drive, a move away from Harvard's tradition of "every tub on its own bottom," is implicitly explained by his description of how graduate programs that make the greatest contributions to society--such as schools of education--often receive the smallest contributions from alumni...
...adversary, Assistant U.S. Attorney Sonia ("Sonny") Klonsky, an admirable model of today's busy woman. In addition to a grueling office schedule, she has to deal with an unhappy marriage, an advanced pregnancy and the possibility of recurrent breast cancer. Turow puts Sandy and Sonny in a hot tub together. But the bubbly alchemy is less convincing than their professional chemistry. Exchanges about subpoenas and fiduciary relationships resound with the authority of a judge's gavel. Clear explanations of how dishonest brokers and floor traders operate should add to the damage-control problems at the Chicago Board of Trade...
Although initially a point of contention, the general nature of the campaign--a broad-based collaborative effort by all of the University's different schools--has been tentatively agreed upon by all of the deans. The new campaign represents a real break from the standard Harvard, "every tub on its own bottom" policy of leaving fundraising up to individual faculties...
...that several of them compete for the same young and fashionable female readers. Newhouse plainly believes there is room for more: next year the company will launch Allure, a beauty magazine aimed, says editor Linda Wells, at "women who don't have hours to spend lounging around in the tub." Newhouse is equally willing to have competing titles for men. After paying a reported $2 million for Details, a modish magazine centered on Manhattan's avant-garde downtown club life, he visited the magazine's offices in February to explain that he was repositioning it as a fashion-oriented monthly...
Delivery of the first plane is expected Sept. 30, the second nine months later. What marvelous machines they will be. The presidential suite up front will have twin beds, a shower-tub, electric window curtains. Refrigerator- freezers will hold provisions to feed the 23 crew and 70 passengers for about a week. The plane could function that long on the ground or be refueled in the air should the land be scorched or otherwise inhospitable -- a Strangelovian concept the Air Force will not abandon...