Word: sizes
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Rubin's remarks do touch on one point of substance, and that is the frequency and regularity with which a capella concerts are held in Sanders Theater. It does seem odd that one genre of student activity would dominate Sanders, which in terms of size and acoustics is undeniably the best performance space at Harvard. There is, however, a simple reason for this...
...year, roughly the same as in 1988 and 1989. There would be far more if the jails, courts and parole system were not already strained to the breaking point. A 1989 seizure of cocaine at a warehouse in the San Fernando Valley's Sylmar illustrates the size of the problem. Though 21 tons of coke were confiscated, records showed that at least 55 tons, worth $1.1 billion, had passed through the warehouse in the previous three months. According to Deputy Chief of Police Glenn Levant, the raid "made little if any impact on the availability of cocaine that we have...
With its legendary aggressiveness, Laventhol accrued a record haul of $345 million from 50 offices across the country in fiscal 1990. But size was its demise. "In their quest for rapid growth, they took on some clients that they shouldn't have," says Arthur Bowman, editor of Bowman's Accounting Report, a trade newsletter, "either in industries that they didn't understand or clients who were running very risky ventures." But if the 360 Laventhol partners are licking their wounds, its 3,400 remaining employees are left with even less: job hunting in the emaciated financial industry. Some...
...GLORY: THE LIFE OF WILLIAM S. PALEY by Sally Bedell Smith (Simon & Schuster; $29.95). An 800-page biography that flattens the image of the late self-inflating CBS founder and relentless socialite to 21-inch size and even smaller...
...skull of the halibut twists, moving one eye to the opposite side and giving the beast -- naturally enough -- a grotesquely pained look. Well, its sufferings are over. Aquaculturists, again in Norway, have produced a dwarf version, at a mere 15 lbs., that takes only three years to reach market size, rather than the 10 required by the wild variety...