Word: tours
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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April is the busiest month of the year for University tour guides, as throngs of recently-admitted prefrosh join the usual tourist crowd to get a glimpse of the college where they might--or might not--decide to spend their next four years...
...built the fund over the years, Lynch acquired a prodigious reputation for doing his homework. Unlike most money managers, Lynch has made a point of visiting companies before he buys their stock. On a typical tour he would call on three firms a day and take note of everything from the alertness of secretaries to the cleanliness of parking lots. In one visit to Chrysler he first met Chairman Lee Iacocca and then walked into an auto plant to talk with workers. "People often ask me to explain my strategy," he says. "When I tell them my strategy...
Actors Judd Nelson, Howard Hesseman and Elizabeth Pena came to Harvard as part of the "Freedom of Choice Campus Tour," a pro-choice voter registration drive sponsored by the Hollywood Policy Foundation Center. The three actors stood by student activists near the Harvard Square subway station, and handed out leaflets encouraging people to register to vote...
...plane landed, the pilot announced the time--2.15 p.m. Nine minutes before our scheduled arrival time. A collective groan spread through the cabin. Then the plane began to taxi. And taxi. And it kept on taxiing. We did a tour of the entire LaGuardia runway system. Finally, we arrived at the gate...
...auctioned again, repossessed the painting and began seeking a private buyer for it at $65 million, saying that though Bond "owned" it, they "had control" of its whereabouts. (Some Australian museum officials now believe, though they have produced no evidence publicly, that the picture exhibited as Irises on a tour of Australian state galleries in 1989 was a new copy, protected from close inspection behind double glass.) Efforts to sell it at the high price failed. Since informed art-dealing sources concurred late last year that the right price for Irises would be around $35 million, it is unlikely that...