Word: bearing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...veterinarian or a zookeeper. She is also learning sign language to supplement what she knows will be a meager salary. I don't suppose too many Harvard freshmen come in hoping to land a great zookeeping job after four years. That dream is far too small to bear the Harvard insignia. We have to think bigger and better, to reach for the stars. But how can I reach for something that I can't even identify? How will I know that I've reached...
...lamp. To get to his bed, he wades through waves of stuffed animals that include the more obscure Pooh characters like Kanga and the Heffalumps. "I think I relate a lot to Pooh's idealized outlook on the world and all the qualities that make up this silly old bear ... By surrounding myself with the inhabitants of Pooh Corner, I am surrounding myself with an aspect of me," Ovadia said in an e-mail message...
...hasn't done laundry in quite some time. His room is growing disheveled piles of shirts, pants and who knows what else. A Trainspotting poster and several homages to R.E.M. cover the walls. Like many college dorms, there is a dart board and a picture of Shaft, a teddy bear on the bookshelf, and a Detroit Red Wings banner. Plants seems at home in his room, comfortable with the clutter, and when guests come over, he kindly offers them a seat on a sketchy futon and a glass of iced...
...years, the Progressive Student Labor Movement's (PSLM) anti-sweatshop campaign has fought to turn Harvard and its apparel licensing from an appendage of corporate America into a weapon against globalization without representation--the WTO's brand of trade. Because the sweatshirts, baseball caps and T-shirts that bear our schools' names are made in sweatshops across the globe, we can fight international injustice where we live, and bring attention to the realities that the WTO ignores...
...money settlement like the one with tobacco would be nice," notes TIME senior political writer Adam Cohen, "I think the President really wants behavioral control." That includes manufacturing safer guns, such as "smart guns," which can only be fired by their owners. With this kind of pressure coming to bear, the gunmakers' best shot at minimizing the damage may be to swallow hard and take a seat at the bargaining table...