Word: unite
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...defense was the only unit really hit hardby graduation. McCarthy, with his intensity andintelligence, really anchored this core lastseason...
That famous quote from Poltergeist applies to Harvard's defense, which was ghastly at the beginning of the season but now looks like a unit that can lead the team to an Ivy repeat...
...Conrad is someone new in a Wolfe novel, a totally good person who wants nothing more out of life than to buy a modest condominium for his family and establish a well-ordered, bourgeois existence. After the most riveting fictional scene ever set in a 0[degree]F freezer unit--here the competition is nonexistent--Conrad learns that he has been laid off, a catastrophe that drives him innocently and mistakenly but also inexorably into the vividly described hellhole of the Alameda County jail...
...speaks very softly, a hint of his native Richmond, Va., still audible in his vowels. "I also spent some time, although not much time, in a zero-degree freezer unit like the one Conrad works in in the novel." Did he actually witness firsthand a "workout" session such as the one Charlie endures at PlannersBanc? "No," he says in the tone of a reporter stymied. "I tried everything, promised to dress like a banker and keep quiet, but I never could get into one. Still, I have five sources for that scene, and I know I'm right...
...forced to lay off half his 110-person staff. He scrambled to find a way to save the rest. One Sunday in church he collared an old pal who worked at a Memphis start-up called Federal Express that was trying to figure out how to automate the transportation unit--getting computers to route the couriers, trucks and airplanes. Barksdale's pitch: FedEx could buy Cook's data-processing department lock, stock and mainframe and sell services back to Cook. Within a few years, Barksdale was chief operating officer of FedEx, overseeing a staff...