Word: bear
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...issue first arose about a year ago, when some students and alumni asked Harvard what it intended to do to improve conditions in those factories that manufacture the t-shirts, sweatshirts, caps and other clothing items that bear Harvard's name. At the time, we were not in a very good position to respond, because traditionally universities in this country have not been involved in the manufacture of such items. Universities authorize licensees such as Champion or Starter to produce clothing, and those licensees in turn contract with shirt or hat factories who do the actual manufacturing. The licensees...
...memoirs, Laura Ingalls Wilder so vividly limned the homesteads and Midwestern landscapes of her 19th century pioneering girlhood that millions of Americans know them as well as they do their own home and backyard. So engaging is Wilder's prose that after finishing all nine volumes, many can't bear to stop. Instead, they retrace Wilder's frontier by reading the series again and again, first to themselves and later to their children...
...ghost story where the ghost comes back to life. For Ben is found, nine years later, and his name is Sam. O.K., he's back--now what? For Sam (Ryan Merriman) was happy with the folks he thought were his parents. And now that he's back "home," getting bear-hugged by strangers, he wants to return to the loving man who adopted him; the boy feels he's been kidnapped twice. But really it's Beth who vanished, from herself and her family. She was the ghost, sleepwalking for years, reminding everyone that the odor of catastrophe...
...fifth of those games, however, was an embarrassing 4-0 loss to Brown, thanks in large part to 30 saves by Bear goaltender Ali Brewer. That was the Kazmaier nominee's 13th shutout of the season and earned her yet another ECAC Goaltender of the Week award. If Brewer is her typically stellar self against the Big Green, the Bears should be able to play at home again in the conference semifinals...
...tomorrow's living wage rally at memorial Church, you won't see the employees whom the salary increase would affect. They won't be there to bear banners. They won't be there to chant, because they will be working and because they might get fired if they come...