Word: companion
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...deals with difficulties in life with remarkable optimism and poise, and almost always with smile and success. (This is very gross generalization, and I am doing him a big injustice by glossing over all the little fine qualities Hui possesses, which combine to generate joyful spirits in every companion...
...position. The bill would increase the annual number of H-1B visas to 115,000 and would double the length of OPT eligibility to 24 months. But according to the Library of Congress, no major action has been taken on this measure—or its companion House bill—since June.The current 65,000-visa cap on H-1Bs is reached at a different point each year, so Class of ’07 students have no way of knowing whether they’ll have the required documents in time to apply.Siddhartha Sinha...
...summer’s literary offerings were soon forgotten. Only five books remained among the top 15 New York Times bestselling non-fiction hardcovers as of this week. Novels apparently fared worse than non-fiction works, with only three novels older than a month making the Times’ companion list...
...Jupiter-like in its proximity to its star. “We think they formed the way our own Jupiter formed...far from their star, and subsequent to their formation, they moved in close to their star,” Charbonneau said. Luckily for Earthlings, our many-mooned companion in this solar system didn’t follow suit. “If Jupiter had marched in early on, we wouldn’t have a planet to live on,” Charbonneau said. With two planetary discoveries published within a week of each other, and a handful detected...
...Persian-carpeted floors. These days, the subject rarely comes up. "He's like all the rest of them," says Amin, 22, a motorcycle messenger, using a Farsi version of "them" that's shorthand for the corrupt clerical establishment. "What has he done to solve our problems?" Hashem, his companion, nods at the Iranian cigarettes lying beside him. "Even these are more expensive," he says. "He just repeats slogans and goes on trips...