Word: attesting
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...tough enough these days, as any American builder can attest, to comply with regulations of the EPA, EEOC, OSHA and a Scrabble board of other U.S. agencies. But when Marasco proposed his International Gateway of the Americas--$225 million worth of shops, restaurants, offices and hotel rooms spread over 67 acres--he also had to deal with U.S. Customs, the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service and the federal, state and city governments on the Mexican side. Marasco observes that "it requires a great deal of, um, flexibility...
...Harvard women's fencing team can attest, the road to glory sometimes contains a few speed bumps...
...prepare to leave Cambridge after four years, in possession of an official Harvard education, I can attest that nothing could be more wrongheaded. By now it is a cliche to say that Harvard students learn as much from their extraordinary peers as from lectures and sections. Undoubtedly this is true, and impossible to replicate. But the value of Harvard goes even beyond its people, talented though they may be: this spot, these buildings and lawns and gates, the beauty that suffuses them and the spirits that live among them, are the subtlest teachers, and sometimes the most poetic and profound...
...next generation of birders could be an even stronger one. "Everywhere I go," says Sibley, "I meet or hear about some eight-year-old who's obsessed with birds." And eight-year-old environmentalists, as many a parent can attest, are natural activists, ready to do whatever it takes to save the planet...
...involving the attempts of a Baker and his Wife to beget a child. The brilliance of the show is its ability to use the fairy tales as a starting point and dig deeper, questioning the value and durability of happiness won too easily. As the lyrics of the finale attest, “Wishes come true, not free...