Word: amidst
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...students returned to campus more than two weeks ago, the e-mail onslaught had already begun. But amidst club announcements and entryway meeting notifications, another, more troubling piece of mail arrived in each of our inboxes: a “Community Advisory” reporting an unarmed robbery in Cambridge Common...
...faculty member at the College for decades, he was the longtime instructor of “The American Presidency,” one of Harvard’s most popular classes. But that year, he gave up a quiet family life to do something louder—live amidst hundreds of undergraduates...
...strategy makes sense beyond historical precedent. The US is a republic where most citizens have most of their money invested in home equity, also known as the bricks that house them, and every one of them can vote. Hence, amidst the heat of an election year, Congress suddenly seems blessed with bipartisanship and eager to approve the RTC-inspired bailout...
McCain, John • asserts, amidst upheaval at Lehman Brothers and Merrill Lynch and the stock market's worst day in seven years, that "the fundamentals of our economy are strong" •concedes, an hour after asserting that "the fundamentals of our economy are strong," that "the American economy is in a crisis - in a crisis!" •concedes Obama didn't call Palin a "pig" while defending his ad implying Obama called Palin a "pig" •confusion about Spain of •declares, inaccurately, that Palin took no earmarks as govenor of Alaska •regulation, after decades of opposition to, unconvincingly embraced...
...hyperinflation; according to the Kenya Standard, inflation rates now reach up to 20 million percent. Mugabe, as the chief decision-maker in Zimbabwe, has attempted reforms whose failed results he has blamed on indeterminable interference by Western states, such as Zimbabwe’s one-time colonizer, Great Britain. Amidst all this economic trouble, Zimbabwe continues to enforce strict restrictions on distribution of aid across the country. Any improvements for life in Zimbabwe will have to start by lifting these restrictions...