Word: bout
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...Board, GSC Committees, and University committees, ranging from the Harvard College Safety Committee to the FAS Library Committee. But the energy in the room was lukewarm, dampened by the thick smell of pineapple pizza. “You just all elected Sarah,” Brown said after another bout of silence in response to a proposed candidate. “See how easy that worked!” Harvard Law School student Aaron D. Chadbourne ’06, a former member of the College’s very own Undergraduate Council, spoke briefly to recruit Graduate Student Council...
...those later.) This lack of fear became a hothouse of greed and ignorance on Wall Street - and on Main Street as well. When greed exceeds fear, trouble follows. Wall Street has always been a greedy place and every decade or so it suffers a blow resulting in a bout of hand-wringing and regret, which always seems to be quickly forgotten...
...attributed to the remaining fears about our own disaster relief preparedness. The United States’ near avoidance of disaster with Hurricanes Gustav and Ike has renewed speculation into a lingering question: has the government learned its lesson from Hurricane Katrina? Although New Orleans was largely spared during this bout of severe weather, snafus from both storms indicate that the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) still has no broad, comprehensive flood management plan, and lacks the ability to coordinate effectively with state and local officials. Chairman of FEMA, Michael Chertoff, has made proposals for improvement that include satellite tracking...
...museum with. He has a shocking knowledge of art history, gets swoony over tiny details and moves at a reasonable pace, which is to say very quickly. And yes, he makes fun of paintings. The one where the Virgin Mary has her fingers outstretched? "She's talking 'bout the bloke she met last night," he says. He barely looks at a depiction of plump martyr St. Andrew as we pass. "That cross," Gervais says, "would never hold the weight." It is the first time I have spent two hours in a museum and wanted to stay longer...
...tank towns for a few hundred bucks. He's been locked out of his Jersey trailer home for laggard payments. And to secure the fans' roving attention, his ring rivals are getting into extreme fighting; one fellow, who looks like an angry Ozark farmer, asks Randy if, during their bout, he can use a staple gun on his chest and back. That episode triggers a heart attack, and Randy is told never to wrestle again...