Word: digging
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City officials expressed concern that although local aid has been protected in the budget thus far, further rounds of cuts would likely dig into local aid, affecting more basic services such as police and fire departments...
...hobo. Strive for the hobo smell: dig through your laundry basket and choose the items with the most holes...
...importance of community involvement and self-determination. Doug M. Brugge, a professor of public health at Tufts, shared stories of community organizing in Boston’s Chinatown, where residents have long battled the city over the impact of transportation projects like the Mass Pike and the Big Dig. “The public transportation developments in Chinatown seem great from a global climate change perspective, a greenhouse gas perspective,” said Brugge, who has received three degrees from the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. “But they created major consequences for the low-income...
...East—among Muslims! These letters, of course, appeal only to those willing to inhale alarmist propaganda without a moment’s worth of fact-checking. Yet the true disappointing consequence of these outlandish suggestions is that the defenders of Obama’s good name unwittingly dig in to positions they should never have taken. To defend Obama as John McCain did—as not an Arab, but a “good family man”—is to concede that Muslim heritage is somehow intrinsically disturbing. The notion of fighting over whether...
...geological model states that we must dig beneath explicit statements to understand their original premises...