Word: eras
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...even stopped ringing. My single was glorious. The dining hall was amazing. My fellow Matherites were wild and crazy in the best of ways. In hindsight, there was obviously no reason to leave, but I decided to throw caution to the wind (hey, this was the pre-financial-crisis era, everyone was doing it) and transferred. I had no specific direction, and only cursorily ranked my preferences on the transfer application. Is experiencing the uncertainty of Housing Day for a second time cheating the system? Maybe. But was it worth it? You betcha.Junior year found me in Lowell...
...rights organizations, in an attempt to broaden her colleagues' focus. "After the bad defeats in 1997 and 2001, the party closed in on itself," she says. "We were just talking to ourselves." Matthew Parris, now a prominent writer and broadcaster, served as a Tory Parliament member during the Thatcher era and remembers when organizers of his party's gay-rights group refrained from spelling out the name of the organization on posters advertising its meetings, for fear of embarrassing attendees. The meetings, he says, took place "in damp basements, 30 or 40 of us drinking warm white wine and reassuring...
...exponential increase in business management and catering to private life. I affirm that individual greed and lack of government regulation, to an extent, brought us to this economic predicament. But how much longer and further will the government expand? Republicans are reminiscent for the days of a bygone era, an era that supported the self-made man and competition. The idea of the economic frontier is no longer pulsating to the country’s rhythm. Now, Republicans fear America will grow accustomed to looking to the government for all of its solutions. Government management might help bail an economy...
...National School Lunch Program, intended to prevent the return of Depression-era child malnourishment, allowed the government to buy surplus food from farmers and set minimum nutritional values for each meal. Its budget grew under Eisenhower and Nixon, but the Reagan Administration slashed it by nearly $1.5 billion - making up for the cuts by revising nutritional guidelines, reducing portion sizes and (infamously) attempting to categorize ketchup as a vegetable. (See nine kid foods to avoid...
...interesting reversal of roles from the Bush era, the Europeans were pushing for the plant to be outed at once, while the U.S. was more cautious. "The Americans seem to have become more patient as their dossier on Iran has gotten fuller, while the Europeans are getting more anxious about taking care of this matter as they've learned more," says Jacquard...