Word: disappeared
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...years are almost nonexistent. Spain has created more jobs than the rest of the euro zone combined over the last four years, but too many of them are low-quality jobs on construction sites. The country's infrastructure has profited greatly from European Union subsidies, which are bound to disappear in coming years as needier recipients in the east move to the front of the line. And then there's inflation, which remains the Achilles' heel of the Spanish economy, currently running at an annual rate of 4.1%, almost twice the euro-zone average. "Since Spain entered the euro zone...
...them at the Last Chance Dance, too. But my friends are not the only things I will miss when I leave this week. They are also, of all the elements of my Harvard experience, probably the least in need of memorializing, because they are the least likely to disappear. What we should really be commemorating this week is the parts of this institution that the Facebook cannot preserve—the parts that, much worse, even Harvard itself might not keep...
...help but oblige. (Batting practice was sadly off-limits, due to the number of very fragile windows in the very near vicinity.) We must have worn his shoulder out, demanding ever higher pop-flies to field and harder ground balls to retrieve as the sunlight slowly disappeared, hours after we’d first left the house.Somehow we made do indoors. Two nights before a game he’d pull out his yellow legal pad and we’d go to work drawing up our plan of attack. Giddy with anticipation, I’d invariably have drawn...
...that your book is out, are you going to disappear again? [Laughs.] I never really was trying to be this mysterious figure. During both campaigns, I was rather busy trying to get my job done. There was a flood of phone calls that Heather and I got from reporters. My reaction was, I have other things to worry about...
...Unfortunately, that instinct didn’t magically disappear the moment we opened our acceptance letters. As relentlessly future-oriented overachievers, we can’t help but look onward to the next challenge. Law schools, medical schools, Ph.D. programs: Options like these require that we spend our four years at Harvard just about as stressed as we were in high school...