Word: welling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Harvard played well in the tournament and finished with a 5-1 overall record, the best mark of the weekend. Harvard and FDU, along with the other five teams in the tournament-- Brown College, Yale University, Boston College, Hartford and Massachusetts--all played on Saturday to determine the seeding for yesterday's action...
...being poisoned, some users are going back to a process popular years ago. They buy cocaine and convert it into a purer form of crack at home. This dangerous process, called free-basing, involves combining cocaine with baking soda and cooking the mixture. The latest trend among well- to-do users is to prepare their free base in microwave ovens...
...poor have a built-in defense against runaway crack abuse: they run out of money. The rich have the same limit; it just takes longer to get there. Stories abound of well-heeled users smoking their way through trust funds, savings accounts and charge-card credit lines. Some take out second mortgages and go on to sell jewelry and household items like TVs, VCRs and answering machines...
Reducing those emissions by any meaningful degree will require tough new federal standards for automobile fuel economy; government-sponsored inducements to make production of electricity by utilities -- as well as consumption by homes and businesses -- more efficient; and a major research- and-development program for alternative sources of energy. So far, the Bush Administration has not pushed for any of those measures. Nor has it proposed or endorsed any legislation mandating cuts in CO2 emissions...
Giulio Romano was so well known in his time that he is the only painter mentioned in any of Shakespeare's plays. Famous, and rather vulgar. If Raphael was the epitome of grace among artists of the High Renaissance and Michelangelo the paragon of sublimity, then Giulio was all licentious facility. So ran the judgment of our Victorian forebears, who could not quite forgive Raphael's best pupil for his indelicacy. An air of brilliant second- rateness still clings to his name. Those who can thrust their way through the crowds in Palazzo Te in Mantua and manage a long...