Word: fields
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...President was not finished. After the game was over, he insisted on jogging around the parched field for another ten minutes. For a 55-year-old man embarking on a campaign against a 69-year-old challenger, it was quite a competitive display...
...sculpture, modest in scale though not in ambition, that anticipate Western artists by half a century. Ivan Kliun (1873-1943) had most of Ellsworth Kelly's best ideas by 1917. Olga Rozanova's Color Construction, Green on White, 1917, a vertical stripe down the middle of a field, is a Barnett Newman "zip" 30 years before Newman, and her exquisite collages in the suite entitled The Universal War, 1916, with their energetically dancing shapes of pure color on a plain ground, predict the chromatic intensity and drawing of Matisse's "Jazz" cutouts...
Pfeiffer's troubles at NBC began almost as soon as she arrived. She was quickly faced with a nasty $1 million scandal involving expense-account fraud and kickbacks among field-unit managers. Pfeiffer, who once spent six months in a convent, earned herself the sobriquet "Attila the Nun" by rooting out the wrongdoers with the wrath of God and a team of lawyers and accountants that ran up a tab of more than $2 million. "It looks like you sent in the whole damned Marines to rescue a cat," Vice Chairman Richard Salant reportedly quipped at a staff meeting...
Most of the 50 or so manufacturers of residential windmills are relatively new and employ a handful of workers. The leader in the field, Enertech Corp. of Norwich, Vt., is five years old and has just 47 employees. Yet in the past twelve months, the company has sold 250 of its "Enertech 1500," a 6-ft.-long cylindrically shaped device that is capable of generating 1.5 kW of power in a stiff 21-m.p.h. breeze, enough to light 15 100-W light bulbs...
...Executives are a company's largest corporate asset," says Chicago Security Specialist Norman Kiven. "In the past few years, corporations have become much more concerned." As evidence, membership in the field's professional association, the American Society for Industrial Security, has increased 133% in the past five years. A New York State chemical firm uses helicopters to move officials in and out of headquarters, both for business trips and commuting. Security at Houston's United Gas Pipe Line Co. was beefed up this year after a former employee armed with a loaded gun and a hand grenade...