Word: bangs
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...much credibility as the Undergraduate Council. For after the performers in section have all done their acts, the that guy has pontificated and his critics have sniped back, the audience realizes it was simply show over substance and they lose respect for all the blustery actors. The big-bang finish of a Summers resignation might keep the seats filled for a few days, but soon the show will be bankrupt...
...partygoers may have wished, its relative propriety means it won’t be cancelled again quite yet. The co-chairs and the BauchCom were confident that the group grope would be back next year, when HoCo co-chair Christine Cherella predicted there would be “more bang for the buck...
...year into Barroso's term. Despite his pedigree, he still hasn't been able to stamp his character on Brussels. To an extent, that is understandable; every President of the Commission is a prisoner of his times, and the great transformations of the E.U. - monetary union and the "big bang" enlargement taking in the former communist countries - were a product of the end of the cold war. These are less exciting times, and Barroso has had to stake his presidency on promoting economic growth - a more nebulous goal that means overcoming the objections of key constituencies anxious to protect their...
...degree in literature or history simply cannot. This does not mean that the humanities and social sciences are unimportant or unnecessary. If the goal is to bring lower-income Americans into the middle class, and to keep American industry competitive and strong, the government is simply getting the most bang for its buck...
...them put money into pure science as well. So did private corporations, including AT&T, IBM and Xerox, which hired not just engineers but also mathematicians, physicists, biologists and even astronomers and gave them free rein. The strategy led to utterly impractical but revolutionary discoveries. The Big Bang theory of the cosmos, to name just one example, got its first experimental proof at AT&T's Bell Labs...