Word: boying
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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CINEMA PARADISO. In this Oscar nominee for best foreign picture, a Sicilian boy of the 1950s sees movies as the whole world -- a panorama of laughter, drama and forbidden dreams...
...Science is a very political institution," said Phyllis Robinson, a biochemist. "For women to succeed, they have to pay attention to the game,"--the game of obtaining funding and respect and jobs--the game of dealing with the "old boy network," she said...
There are two plywood circles showing where gun turrets were taken out to save weight when hauling the 9,600-lb. Little Boy atom bomb. Back in the bomb bay work is going on to reconstruct the single hook used to suspend and release the bomb. A normal double hook for bombs was abandoned by the mission planners, who feared, if one malfunctioned, the armed bomb might dangle in the rack like hell on a tether. You remember the day 44 years ago on a college campus when the news came of the Enola Gay's successful drop...
...Japan is cross- border merger advice, a field in which the company ranks No. 1. Morgan is also prominent in Europe, where it completed $20.5 billion in cross-border bids last year. Yet Morgan avoids coming on like a Yankee juggernaut, preferring instead to work within the old-boy networks favored by many European executives...
...cavalryman, and I ride a flat saddle in boots and britches," he explains. "I come up to the stall, put a rope around my horse's neck, say, 'Come on, boy,' and lead him down to curry him and pick his hoofs...