Word: gathering
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...regime could hardly have been surprised that it lost the vote - Zimbabwe is a country with 80% unemployoment, 100,000% inflation and life expectancy in the mid 30s. But with a month to come to terms with that idea, it had time to gather its forces for a counterattack...
...hope is that you’ll get more reliable feedback,” Barreira said, adding that UHS would compare surveys across time to see if there were satisfaction trends by season. Health services at other schools, like the University of Pennsylvania, also use electronic surveys to gather student feedback. UC representative Tamar Holoshitz ’10, who organized Mental Health Week and is also a student representative to the College-UHS Advisory Committee, said she hopes the survey would identify key issues for UHS and improve individual health care experiences by fostering more communication between health services...
...trip-hop was a movement firmly entrenched in the 90s, petering out with Massive Attack’s “Mezzanine” in 1998. Without a cultural groundswell like that of the original Bristol scene to inspire a new direction for the sound, Portishead seemed destined to gather dust alongside the decade’s other forgotten greats. Which wouldn’t be so bad—the group’s debut, 1994’s “Dummy,” is one of the most lauded albums of the genre, not to mention...
Everybody seems to believe it: The way the two parties nominate presidential candidates is a troubled system that needs “reform.”National political leaders and journalists gather today at Harvard’s Institute of Politics for a day-long conference to mull ideas for making those adjustments. Yet a fair question also needs to be asked: If it ain’t broke, why fix it? Rather than sweeping “reforms,” a more do-able proposition is a series of tweaks and adjustments to the current processes.We have...
...canned and processed food. However, this year, according to UN World Food Programme estimates, 4.2 million Zimbabweans—a third of the population—will face serious food shortages. Many Zimbabweans have been forced to survive on one meal a day. Aid agencies are unlikely to gather enough support from the rest of the world as Zimbabwe has an appalling credit history. After defaulting on its foreign loans in 2004, Zimbabwe was suspended from the International Monetary Fund. Few countries would risk loaning money to Zimbabwe today. Already having substantial difficulty in handling the economy, the government...