Word: umbrellas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...event was sponsored by the student group Nueva Generation and the Latino student government Concilio Latino, an umbrella organization that includes undergraduates and students from the Law School, Education School and Divinity School...
...clawlike fingers of normal size and a fourth digit that was outlandishly long. It was this fourth finger that provided structural support for the wings. Made of a skin-like membrane, the wings were supported by thousands of microscopic fibers that acted rather like the ribs of a folding umbrella, creating a flexible structure that was stiff enough to be aerodynamic...
...questions is: Can you run a first-class investment firm under the umbrella of an academic institution?" Meyer said...
Moreover, people too easily forget that the United Nations is more than a glass and steel Secretariat in New York City and blue helmets peppered around the globe. Under the umbrella of the UN, the World Health Organization has eradicated smallpox worldwide and spearheaded efforts in the inoculation of children against viral disease. The United Nations High Commission for Refugees has regularly aided as many as 18 million displaced persons a year. UNICEF has campaigned for child welfare and education, other UN bodies have set up projects to champion women's rights in over 100 countries and brought safe drinking...
...Latin) pulls the audience out of domesticity into the ethereum of its wizardly wit. A man and a woman sit in metal chairs, he reading a paper, she knitting. A child sits before them. Then through a door comes a large figure out of a Magritte painting: long overcoat, umbrella, bowler hat, no head. The child takes the creature's magic hat, puts it on--and dreams the three-hour show. The chairs, the door rise into the air. Benoit Jutras' New Agey music soars with them. A menagerie of demons and sprites glides on stage, primed to amaze. Once...