Word: bled
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...wondering how you got here—you’ve spent the past 18 years padding your resume, doing all of your homework, enrolling in foreign-language immersion programs, rehearsing Vivaldi’s “Four Seasons” until your calluses bled, and now you’re finished. For many of you, gaining acceptance into Harvard was a tireless goal; for others, it was a hopeful prayer before tossing your application in the mail. Regardless of how you came to call yourself an incoming Harvard student, you made...
...affected uniformly. Statutory and constitutional guarantees in the criminal justice system protect the right to a speedy trial, says Allan Parachini, spokesman for the Los Angeles Superior Court, so "we really can't go to the criminal courts for the cuts... what is happening is that resources are being bled out of other areas, especially civil, to make sure we can meet all our obligations in criminal." Ten years ago the average time to trial in a general civil case in Los Angeles County was an eye popping five years. Reforms and increased efficiency reduced the wait to 16 months...