Word: augusts
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...married in August, and - I'll admit it - I'm still slightly obsessed with reliving my wedding day. But I don't think my friends want to reminisce anymore about the miraculously sunny hillside ceremony or the super rockin' dance party at the reception. I can't really turn to my husband either, the only other person as emotionally invested in my wedding as I am, because he's 9,000 miles away in Vietnam. After the big to-do, which we spent a year planning long-distance, he's back living and working in Saigon and I'm back...
...member of the Boston City Council, was arrested on Friday morning on charges of corruption and lying to federal agents, according to a statement from the Massachusetts U.S. Attorney’s Office. Turner, a Kirkland House alumnus, is accused of accepting a $1000 payment in August 2007 from a person looking to obtain a liquor license for a proposed club in Roxbury called “Dejavu”. The meeting was caught on hidden video, according to an affidavit filed by FBI Special Agent Krista L. Corr. In addition, Turner allegedly denied accepting the payment when questioned about...
...time of economic peril, of course, that is probably a good thing. Geithner has been in the middle of efforts to mitigate the financial crisis since it began in August 2007, and he is likely to be welcomed in Capitol Hill confirmation hearings as warmly as he was on Wall Street today, where the Dow industrials rallied nearly 500 points on news of his nomination. He does carry the baggage, however, of the still unsuccessful Bush Administration's attempts to halt the crisis. (See the Top 10 Dow Jones drops...
...high for too long. Though Europe is not in outright deflation yet, the pressures across the continent are all trending downward. Even in China, the world's largest developing nation, officials acknowledge that the risk of inflation - their main concern at the time of the Beijing Olympics in August - is gone. At a high-powered international financial conference in Beijing over the weekend, a senior People's Bank of China official acknowledged to TIME that "if anything, we now need to fight against falling demand and possibly even falling prices." (See pictures of the global financial crisis...
...Mass. Gov. Deval L. Patrick ’78 signed a law this August requiring pharmaceutical and medical device-making firms to publicly disclose gifts worth more than $50. The law also bans certain types of gifts such as sports tickets and free travel...