Word: mountaintop
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...federal agents issued a warrant for the arrest of Terry Church, 46, the flamboyant, Harley-riding president of Keystone Mortgage Co., a subsidiary of First National Bank of Keystone. The agents excavated hundreds of cartons of mortgage documents buried in a corner of Church's mountaintop ranch. They alleged that she and one of her company's vice presidents, Michael Graham, obstructed bank regulators who were investigating a fraudulent scheme that left First National insolvent and forced bank regulators to take it over on Sept. 1. The bank's losses are expected to cost the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation some...
...went to America from England as a young man and laid down on canvas the raw grandeur of the landscape as illustration of the new nation's moral power. The picture is easy to miss, a little study of a Christian pilgrim on the verdant knoll of a mountaintop. His arms are outspread, brilliant under a sky ablaze with light and hope...
...consoled by the fact that his name adorns the Hubble Space Telescope, which probes the cosmos to depths he could not have imagined but would have fully appreciated. Whatever marvels the Hubble telescope reveals, they're all played out on the stage Edwin Hubble first glimpsed from a lonely mountaintop in California...
...that. The average price for a two-bedroom, two-bath home on one acre is $75,000. For that, you also get the weather. Joy and Mac McMurray are another couple who left the Sunshine State, selling their West Palm Beach home and building their dream house on 88 mountaintop acres. "We've joined the other half-backs," explains Joy, 55. "That's when you go from up north to Florida and then come halfway back again...
Emerson's mountaintop is admittedly not very appealing. Nor is it practicable. Far better to stay here in Cambridge where the dorms are heated. But at the very least a colossal reevaluation of priorities is required. It is of immeasurable importance that we stop viewing titles and other forms of institutional recognitions as reliable signifiers of worth. Most titles are not altogether reliable (is everyone at Harvard as intelligent as you expected them to be?), and some are outright capricious (has every Oscar-winning director really made the best film of the year?).It is the responsibility of every Harvard...