Word: humboldt
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...with malls and condos. Charles Hurwitz, 54, raided and leveraged his way to an '80s-style fortune, acquiring a random bag of companies, including Kaiser Aluminum and the Pacific Lumber Co. From his Houston headquarters, Hurwitz seems puzzled that other people care about some big trees Pacific owns in Humboldt County, California...
...UCSC 1444 10-6 7. Carleton 1443 4-1 8. Cal-Ply-SLO 1422 7-6 9. UCSB 1410 10-7 10. G. Tech 1355 6-2 11. Las Posit. 1353 6-4 12. HARVARD 1351 5-1 13. Miami 1310 4-0 14. Virginia 1249 12-2 15. Humboldt 1247 2-3 16. Georgia 1232 4-2 17. UC-Berk. 1195 2-8 18. E. Carol. 1170 4-2 19. Carn-Mell. 1145 6-2 20. UC-Davis...
...handful of ordinary people who not only saw the horror around them but also risked their lives out of compassion for its victims: those under Nazi rule who dared to hide Jews in their houses and apartments and on their farms. According to Samuel and Pearl Oliner, researchers from Humboldt State University in California who conducted an eight-year study of altruism, these protectors may have saved 500,000 lives...
...Clinton mess last week suggested something about a certain brainless overstimulation of American media life. In his novel Humboldt's Gift, Saul Bellow wrote about the arrival of fame: "I experienced the high voltage of publicity. It was like picking up a dangerous wire fatal to ordinary folk. It was like the rattlesnakes handled by hillbillies in a state of religious exaltation." Bill Clinton, wholesome, ruddy Arkansas boy, found himself handling poisonous snakes. Ugly stories have a slithering life of their...
...heeled environmentalists wishing to put parts of the Third World off limits to development. If it works with debt-straitened countries, why not with similarly strapped companies? That's the reasoning behind the latest swap plan, intended to protect a 2,900-acre redwood forest in Northern California's Humboldt County...