Word: woodwork
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...real estate is breathtaking. Glowing Victorian brass fittings, red oak woodwork and frosted glass set off the Pavilion, a graceful three-level gallery of restaurants and shops in a vast sunlit atrium that rises 215 ft. and has a floor two-thirds the length of a football field. Visible through the distant glass roof, past floors of balconied corridors where 800 federal workers have offices, is a dramatic view: the 315-ft. clock tower that presides loftily over Pennsylvania Avenue. Developer Charles Evans Jr., whose firm also was part of the team that refurbished the nation's oldest covered...
Well, we came. And to our surprise, all those official networks have seemed to disappear into the Harvard woodwork or have never appeared. For example, for freshmen there are no minority senior advisors on this campus. There are only 11 minority proctors out of 60 for the Third World freshmen that make up 23 percent of the class of 1986. I can say that for me and for the 10 percent of my class that is Asian-American, it has been frustrating at times knowing that not one proctor or senior advisor is Asian...
...earns $3.35 million off the float each day and suffers only about $3 million of bad-check losses during an entire year. But Falls says that the number of bad checks would rise dramatically if the bank eliminated waiting periods. Says he: "The crooks would come out of the woodwork. We have to protect ourselves from losses...
...love She's a star and knows how to play the role to the hilt. She's glamour, she's glitz, she's a fun, funky, beautiful Black woman with an abundance of style. What more could the Foundation offer to get people to come out of the woodwork and take notice...
...stock has more than doubled, from 11 to 24 5/8 per share, over the past year. Donald Burr may still be working seven days a week, but his 9% share of the company stock is now worth $17 million. And the customers keep coming out of the woodwork. Says Burr: "We're getting people who wouldn't have traveled to New York to see a show, or buy clothes. If they did, they would have driven or taken a train." These days, at least on People Express, it is cheaper...