Word: wizard
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...child who must shortly be sent to Princeton. He names it Yonder (that's the easy part), learns to hoist anchor, percolate about the harbor, and dock again. Also to sail a bit, and what to do when the diesel fails: call for a tow, then call the diesel wizard, then deploy checkbook. After several seasons of costly maintenance, Coomer's master shipwright assumes a long face, reports rot and says the author had better decide how much he loves the boat...
...viewed as the culprit. But in 1979 William C. Sullivan, former assistant director in charge of the domestic intelligence division, published a book that stated, "The FBI laboratory is in fact a real-life counterpart of the busy workroom of the Wizard of Oz--all illusion... No one at the lab they run in Washington knows what he is doing." M. WESLEY SWEARINGEN Tucson, Ariz...
Forgive my blasphemy, but it is time we did away with this antiquated idolatry. More myth than might, "Harvard" is nothing more than a 7-letter name tag for a great school. This false Wizard of Oz not only exploits the misguided piety of its followers, but by worshipping it, we are cheating ourselves of billions and billions of dollars. Harvard already rakes in the big bucks by plastering donors' names on every building, bookshelf and ashtray on campus. Think of the money that could be raised by auctioning off a change in the biggest name...
...Latin America's largest integrated steel company, it's not the blast furnaces that are shooting off the biggest sparks these days. It's Maria Silvia Bastos Marques, 40, an economist and financial wizard hired in May to restructure Companhia Siderurgica Nacional, formerly an icon of Brazilian state-driven industrialization and, since 1993, Brazil's largest privately owned firm. She has more than her share of work ahead at CSN, where she is leading what she calls an "internal revolution" that is likely to set standards for other Brazilian industries as well...
According to the program's literature, in the Wizard of AIDS Dorothy is transported to a world threatened by AIDS. Along the way, she meets the Wicked Witch of Needle-Sharing and her sister, the Wicked Witch of Unsafe Sex, and makes friends with the "over-sexed" Scarecrow, the "promiscuous" Tin Babe and the Homosexual Cowardly Lion...