Word: closing
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...main storyline chronicles the dissolution of the close friendship between the straitlaced and ultra-successful Darren and the rebellious, insecure Steve (Josh Hutcherson). Each teen deals with his own emotional baggage: Darren fends off the suffocation of his upper-middle class suburban milieu and his father’s chant of “College! Job! Family!” while Steve copes with an absent father and an alcoholic mother...
With the exception of a 2007 Crimson 17-point victory, games between the two teams at Harvard Stadium have been historically close...
...proud of many achievements, including three balanced budgets and an expansion of low-income public housing. But he did add that his state and country were still in economic crisis, despite quick action from the federal government. “We don’t seem to appreciate how close we were to a depression,” said the governor...
Jumping up from his seat on the Loeb Mainstage at the close of the Harvard-Radcliffe Dramatic Club’s panel on entering the theater industry, director Geordie F. Broadwater ’05 dramatically shouted, “It’s the late-night drunken artistic romance! It’s the 3 a.m., sitting with friends, drinking, and discussing theater in New York City! I live for that! I love that!” Despite this rousing conclusion, the panel was much more sobering, revealing that romance alone is not enough to sustain a career...
...apocalyptic mess of raging wildfires, soaring unemployment, mass foreclosures and political paralysis. It's dysfunctional. It's ungovernable. Its bond rating is barely above junk. It's so broke, it had to hand out IOUs while its leaders debated how many prisoners to release and parks to close. Nevada aired ads mocking California's business climate to lure its entrepreneurs. The media portray California as a noir fantasyland of overcrowded schools, perpetual droughts, celebrity breakdowns, illegal immigration, hellish congestion and general malaise, captured in headlines like "Meltdown on the Ocean" and "California's Wipeout Economy" and "Will California Become America...