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...spent four years at Rocky Mountain National Park and one year at Mount Rainier. I did all kinds of things, I was what they called a utility ranger. I did trail patrol work, I trapped bears, I blew beaver dams, I was a speed cop, I was a garbage man. It was a wonderful job- hell, I would have paid to have done what I did there. But I didn't have any money, so I was glad when they paid me instead...
...Still, for all the needling - bankers were submitted to three hours of lawmakers' questions - taxpayers got little in the way of detail about how or why the banks blew it. Stevenson insisted the HBOS board "was all over" risk management and "stress-testing." It was external factors, he said, that ultimately did it for the bank. Goodwin claimed that at "no point did anyone get the scale or the speed of [the slowdown], and that was what was so damaging about this...
...ball kicked out to the top, but with just fifteen seconds to play, the Crimson blew a transition opportunity, only to see the ball get kicked out to Lin with seven seconds to play. The rest was Crimson history, as the drive, pump fake, foul, and free throw completed an astonishing 11-point Harvard comeback over the last ten minutes of play...
...people and cut pay 15% for those who remained. At least they're being paid: the machinery factory nearby is two months in arrears. "People woke up one day, and everything had changed," says Ivan Pronin, editor of the local paper, the Lyudinovo Worker. "It's like a hurricane blew through here...
...film critic was represented: the loves-it-all USA Today type, the can’t-stand-anything-but-artsy New York Times type, the bitter-because-I’d-rather-be-writing-scripts L.A. Times type, and everything in between. Those endowed with press or corporate passes blew by the long lines that grouped outside the theaters, but for once, nobody seemed to mind. Despite the wintry weather, the cinematic discourse continued on between strangers and new acquaintances unabated...