Word: tubs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Inning two, Boise: In the middle of the inning, while the teams switch, my mom's co-worker uses an elastic slingshot to get a water balloon into a hot tub being pulled around the field by a pickup truck. She wins the tub. We cheer. The Hawks get on the board. We clap...
This is the sort of person friends say he was: loose, tender, open, funny. His one-bedroom apartment was a hostel where anyone could go to crash--on the couch, in the tub. The dog he picked out at an animal shelter was selected "because Jonathan thought he couldn't survive the aggressiveness of the other dogs." There was no ostentation in him, as there is none in his father. Someone recalls that Jerry told his son, "I'd like to talk to you about finances." Jonathan replied, "I'd love to Dad, but I'm a little strapped today...
...failed to learn the true lesson of Winthrop's oft-quoted phrase. In trying to be a beacon for information technology (IT), it drew the constant ire of Harvard's nine deans who were accustomed to the "every tub on its own bottom" theory of management...
...line with Harvard's "every tub on its own bottom" tradition, each of Harvard's graduate schools has chosen a different course to float through retirement challenges. The measurable effect of the new retirement law varies by school, but one thing remains constant: No plans are in place to change retirement policy anytime soon anywhere in the University...
...last decade or so, as the blurbs allotted to each in The Unofficial Guide annually shrink. The result is that interests have so diversified that the student body is becoming somewhat balkanized, with students forming almost every type of interest group under the sun, and with each tub on its own bottom...