Word: chunks
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...skater who had missed a sizeable chunk of his first collegiate season...
Like Lowell, most HoCos have devoted a good chunk of the spring semester to organizing events to welcome new freshmen...
...books as a first step to steadying the wobbly financial system. Anticipating a dealmaking frenzy, Chao and his team did their homework before potential buyers came knocking. A consortium led by the Morgan Stanley Real Estate Fund hired Chao and won the bidding on the first and biggest chunk, $1.3 billion in loans from Huarong Asset Management, in 2001. Such successes have made Chao fairly fearless. Last fall, during a staff retreat in Phoenix, Arizona, he led three lawyers from China on a three-hour mountain-biking trip in the blistering sun along rattlesnake-infested rocky roads. "What the heck...
...books as a first step to steadying the wobbly financial system. Anticipating a dealmaking frenzy, Chao and his team did their homework before potential buyers came knocking. A consortium led by the Morgan Stanley Real Estate Fund hired Chao and won the bidding on the first and biggest chunk, $1.3 billion in loans from Huarong Asset Management, in 2001. Such successes have made Chao fairly fearless. Last fall, during a staff retreat in Phoenix, Ariz., he led three lawyers from China on a three-hour mountain-biking trip in the blistering sun along rattlesnake-infested rocky roads."What the heck...
...part of humanity that reads--that's still a goodly chunk, by the way--McEwan's new book is a major event. His last one, the bleakly magnificent Atonement, put him in the front rank of English-language novelists and became an international best seller--in the U.S. alone, there are 750,000 copies in print. The story of a young girl with a powerful imagination and of the terrible consequences that occur when it's misused, it was a nuanced psychological study, a powerful war drama and, finally, by way of a brisk twist at the end, a devastating...