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...based empire (hotels, restaurants, discounting) from offices reminiscent of that Bondian archvillain, Auric Goldfinger: his gold-embossed telephone, gold vinyl chair and gold-striped sofa are set off by the rich, warm shades of a gold-hued carpet. When Carlson's Gold Bond Stamp operation was at its peak in the 1960s, its executives drove a fleet of company-owned gold Cadillacs. A gold-framed saying in one of his offices reflects Carlson's buck-starts-here philosophy: "Lest you forget, our sole purpose here is to make money. However, let's have fun while...
...bass clarinet. One hallmark of AACM artists is a fascination with interesting and unusual juxtapositions of instruments, and in the AEC this interest is taken to an extreme. What is even more striking than the sheer multiplicity of instruments is the sensitivity and virtuosity of their use. An artistic peak of last Friday evening's performance was duet between Jarman on flute and Mitchell on the bulky bass saxophone. Surprisingly, the pairing sounded neither contrived nor ludicrous; Mitchell managed to coax from his awkward horn a tone as clear, tender, and agile as that of the smaller flute...
...compromise decision, Lee did something of an about-face. At week's end, he predicted that the "outages"-jargon for when a generator is out of the power grid-would be of "very short duration." Certainly, he said, they would not last into the peak summer season. But Harold Denton, the NRC's reactor regulations chief, was more skeptical. Something of a hero in the nuclear field for his cool troubleshooting at Three Mile Island in the wake of March's accident, he insisted that all B & W pressurized water reactors were susceptible to the kind...
Harvard played well, but dropped several matches that it would have taken were it playing at the peak of its form...
Michael A. Baltier, an epidemiologist at the Massachusetts Department of Communicable Diseases, said yesterday this is "a peak year" for German measles cases...