Word: feets
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...dishonesty” when the University, apparently playing to community concerns that it was leaving property vacant, said 85 percent of its “leasable” property was already leased. The Crimson later reported that Harvard had not yet informed the public that 790,000 square feet of its property was deemed “non-leasable” because the spaces were either unfit for tenants or reserved for University construction plans. The continued presence of empty lots has riled residents already concerned about the slow speed of the development process, some of whom fear that...
Many people who fly on airplanes do not like it one bit. Some of these are claustrophobic while others object to the fact that they are not allowed to smoke at 37,000 feet anymore. But, the majority of nervous flyers have anxiety based on their belief that nothing that weighs any number of tons should be able to operate off of the ground at all. To their way of thinking, flying is a physical impossibility which they tolerate because driving from New York to Los Angeles takes five or six days...
...wives. The original “Little Mermaid,” by Hans Christian Andersen, finds Ariel’s less-lucky predecessor forfeiting her life to save her prince. In the Grimms’ fairy tale, Cinderella’s stepsisters mutilate themselves in order to squeeze their feet into the glass slipper. The grim plots and endings don’t negate the fact that they’re all magnificent stories. The problem with Kurt Schwitters’ Merz stories is that they seem to rely on their darkness as a sufficient claim to artistry.The only apparent...
Papademetriou also argues that undocumented workers will play a role in getting the economy on its feet again. They represent, he says, exactly the kind of workforce that employers will turn to at the first blush of recovery. "If you're going to ramp business up quickly, where are you going to get the workers?" he says. Businesses may have new orders coming in, but they're not going to hire permanent workers until they're sure the recession is over...
...matched by a somber mood among Evangelicals and others opposed to expanding the definition of marriage. "I am not giving up on this issue, nor assuming that the debate is over," Mohler told TIME. "Clearly, it is not. Yet I do sense that the ground is moving under our feet...