Word: dun
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...weeks ago, the environmental artist Christo, wrapper of seacoasts, had 1,760 giant umbrellas implanted and opened in the bald, dun landscape of the Tejon Pass in the Tehachapi Mountains north of Los Angeles (1,340 more were simultaneously opened in Japan). The art seemed very California, surreal, whimsical, harmlessly airheaded, vaguely haunting -- the umbrellas disconnected from practical function and somehow mocking the grand scenery: a conceptual joke. But then high winds rose. By a kind of sinister telekinesis, one of the giant umbrellas lifted out of the earth, flew across the landscape and crushed a woman to death...
...they dun alumni and other donors for funds, schools are also pinching pennies, sometimes in dramatic fashion. Bryn Mawr is phasing out five graduate departments, including Spanish and anthropology. Lehigh has eliminated its classics department, while Northwestern has cut its nursing and dental hygiene programs. Columbia, which earlier abandoned its linguistics and geography departments, announced in June that it would follow the University of Chicago's lead and shut down its library science school. Dartmouth has cut 55 staffers and eliminated seven junior varsity sports, including men's tennis, lacrosse, soccer and golf...
...dun-colored buildings on Berlin's Normannenstrasse that once served as headquarters for the Stasi, the East German state security service, may turn out to be the world's biggest molehill. As agents from the Western part of Germany search through the archives, they are discovering that over the years a burrowful of East German spies managed to infiltrate West Germany more thoroughly than Bonn had thought. Since unification day on Oct. 3, police have apprehended more than a dozen espionage suspects, and more arrests are expected. "The people in the West were foolish enough to believe that these files...
...begin your preinterview research in the OCS library. Useful directories include Standard and Poor's Register of Corporations, Directors and Executives, Dun and Bradstreet's Reference Book of Corporate Managements, and the Wall Street Index Binder. OCS also receives Institutional Investor, Business Week, Fortune and The Wall Street Journal, as well as housing a collection of company information such as annual reports. In addition, each recruiting company fills out a fact sheet about positions or training programs, location of employment, and required concentrations. Those are kept in a binder in the recruiting room...
...gloomy signals, many U.S. business leaders think that the economy's so-called soft landing has already occurred and that the economy will soon be ready for takeoff again. A survey of executives published last week by Dun & Bradstreet concluded that "business optimism has reached a turning point and businesses are regathering strength for the second half of 1990." Consumers are not so sure. Their cutback in spending during the October-December quarter was largely responsible for the economy's poor performance...