Word: pyramids
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...commanded an army of 5,000 sales agents spread throughout 285 offices in 49 states -- most of them inexperienced, ill trained and often crammed like cattle into boiler-room offices. The agents memorized scripted pitches that they parroted to customers, usually over the phone. The firm also uses a pyramid-style structure, similar to Amway's, in which agents recruit others in return for a cut of new revenues...
Anyone who doubts that the hospitable intentions exist, at least on paper, need look no further than the tallest building in the skyline of Pyongyang, a 105-story pyramid under construction. The 1,000-ft. tower is apparently to house the Ryugyong Hotel, whose 3,000 rooms will be able to accommodate 5,000 tourists. That seems more than enough for the one tourist who comes flying in each...
...times have changed, I say to myself as I help build a human pyramid on the F&M quad -- one of the many organized games meant to break the ice among the 500 students in the class of 1994. "This is ridiculous," scoffs an athletically built freshman standing to one side of the mayhem. "My parents are spending $20,000 a year for this?" Moments later, he is engrossed in a finger-painting version of charades, his haughty disdain replaced by keen concentration as he tries to make his teammates guess what he is drawing...
Over the summer, progress was made on the exterior of the addition. It features pyramid-like skylights, porcelain tiles and limestone from Indiana...
Over the summer, progress was made on the exterior of the addition. It features pyramid-like skylights, porcelain tiles and limestone from Indiana...