Word: belle
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Since then, donations of rejected food have enabled the children to eat in addition to their studies, but resources remain scarce in the orphanage and school, as Visual and Environmental Studies Teaching Fellow Randy Bell ’00 and Pacho Velez ’02 discovered when they spent six weeks there shooting a documentary about the home. According to the directors, they hope to show that AIDS is “not only a medical crisis but also a socio-cultural one that threatens to create a generation of children without parents...
...penthouse, our villa, our chateau and our chalet, Harriman said. Only our manservant Geoffrey has arrived. I am still awaiting my chauffer and my cook, as well as my gardener, butler, governess, wet nurse and masseuse. Apologies, but I dont remember their names. I get their attention with this bell. He then escorted Gossip Guy from the drawing room to the solarium, through the antechamber and out the servants entrance...
...with grade inflation is that it makes it impossible to standardize evaluations within and across departments. Some teachers see a B as a default grade for those who don’t receive A’s. A different teacher may distribute B’s according to a Bell curve. Not only does this penalize students who happen to take courses with tougher-grading professors, it also creates incentives for students to select courses with easier-grading instructors. And this in turn puts pressure on tougher-grading professors to inflate their grades, or else face dwindling enrollment in their...
...year. Since 1997, 5 million ExxonMobil customers have paid for gas with just a wave from little Speedpass wands on their key rings. Phillips 66 and Shell announced their own Speedpass clones this year. Fast-food companies such as McDonald's, KFC and Taco Bell, as well as Canteen Vending, began rolling out m-commerce initiatives this year. Blockbuster and 7-Eleven are expected to follow soon...
About 400 customers at KFC and Taco Bell restaurants in the Raleigh-Durham, N.C., area are testing an m-commerce system created by 2Scoot, based in Kingston, N.Y. In July 2Scoot signed a deal with Nokia to bring cashless payments to the lunch counter at the Finnish cell-phone giant's U.S. headquarters in Irving, Texas...