Word: vesting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Kidder also provides bonuses: vest-pocket essays on architecture and the lumber business; insights into bidding, building techniques and the pleasures of physical labor. His builders are a proud bunch not given to "cob jobs," carpenters' jargon for sloppy work. Their praise is dispensed with the left hand, as in "perfect enough" or "good enough for Amherst." By this standard, Tracy Kidder's book is not too cobby...
Divestment is not just a moral issue; it is a political one. It is a question of where Harvard will vest its power: its legitimizing power, its image, and its economic power. It must be answered not by elegant intentions or phrases, but by action. Divestment is a relatively painless thing. New York City actually made money doing it. Should Harvard, then, put its weight behind the political aspirations of the Black majority, or will it remain the discreet quisling of the Bok regime? To a growing number of students and staff at Harvard, the choice is clear. Richard...
...home, looked out the window and saw a body in his backyard. Police found the remains of Andrew Carter Thornton II, 40, snarled in a parachute. Along with 79 lbs. of cocaine, two pistols, knives and $4,500 in cash, Thornton carried night-vision goggles and wore a bulletproof vest. Police believe he had smuggled the drugs, with a value of $15 million, in a twin-engine Cessna. He put the plane on * automatic pilot and bailed out. At treetop level, his chute became fouled. Instead of landing upright, he hit the ground headfirst. The wrecked plane was found...
Even funnier is the way every character in 1955 America thinks that Marty's orange down vest is a life preserver and presumes that he is some kind of sailor. It gets to be a running joke in the movie and doesn't lose its humor even by the fourth time the joke is made...
...concert tour for a week, traveling from Dallas to Houston to Austin to New Orleans. "I was surprised by her face," says Worrell. "It is beautiful and strange, very pure, and free of all indecision and self-doubt." Backstage before a concert, Madonna tried on a white leather vest and a miniskirt layered with fringe. Recalls Worrell: "Twirling before a mirror, fringe flying, she sang out, 'If I ever married a cowboy, this is what I'd wear!' And she would...