Word: afoot
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...floor bathrooms instead, the relevant sign helpfully says, though it vexingly omits the question of causality. Ask the furtive librarians and all you get are mutterings about routine repairs. Routine repairs? In the middle of November? For only the fifth floor men's bathroom? No, something quite odd is afoot at Harvard's undergraduate library...
...Beijing's new, sophisticated hostelries perform in a frugal city where it's still possible to knock back a stiff gin-and-tonic for a buck? Though Drake concedes that Face is "certainly a high-risk project," the initial response from the glitterati has been positive, and plans are afoot to add a Middle Eastern restaurant, as well as to convert the building's upper floors into a spa and boutique hotel. The new venues are also eyeing the tantalizing possibility of recouping their substantial investment from just a handful of well-heeled customers, given that Nike, Reebok and other...
...Will Oldham, whether singing as Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy, Palace Music, or his own Christian name, likes his songs to exist outside of time.So, anyone familiar with his voluminous catalog—equal parts confounding and transcendent—will know that something strange is afoot in the opening line of his new album.“When the numbers / get so high / of the dead / flying through the sky,” he mumble-croons over soft strings and guitar strums, “Oh, I / don’t know why / love comes...
...Yiyili, excised from Louisa Downs Station, is considered to be a model remote community. Assorted ministers and politicians from all over the nation have come here to see good news in the making-and, if you look on the walls of the administrative offices, to be photographed. Plans are afoot to capture more of the tourist dollar, through art and guided tours of Gooniyandi country. "The demise of trad-itional communities is due to structures, such as the [defunct] Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Comm-ission, that have been imposed from afar by governments," says school principal Len Boyle...
...economy isn't the only thing in transition. The Fed itself is feeling the Bernanke effect. You could take that opening scene of Bernanke carefully considering each Senator's words as a leading indicator that a shift is afoot on Constitution Avenue. Listening, mulling, debating, airing opinions of all stripesthese are hallmarks of Bernanke, honed during his years as an academic economist, first at Stanford, then at Princeton, and that style is spilling over into the way economists at the Fed communicate as they forge the nation's monetary policy. More brainstorming, apparently, means more clarity...