Word: gone
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...heart of all this are Stewart and Pattinson, who have gone from obscurity straight to superstardom. People wait for them outside buildings. People try to follow them home. "In Vancouver shooting New Moon, I tried something," Pattinson says. "It's the only city in the world where hoods are not fashionable. If you're wearing a hood, you're going to mug people. So I wore a hood, and then I'd sort of spit on the ground a little bit and do a little bit of shaking around as you're walking. Everyone moved to the other side...
...converted factory where the school was housed to find it surrounded by black-uniformed Gestapo. Soon after, he shut it down for good and made for the U.S., where Gropius, the Alberses and Moholy-Nagy would also end up as hugely influential teachers and practitioners. The Bauhaus was gone, but its gospel would go on. Decades later, Tom Wolfe would call his lightheartedly reactionary takedown of modernism From Bauhaus to Our House. No matter what you think of the book, you can't say he didn't get the title right...
...think the fact that no team has gone undefeated [in ECAC play] so far this season really proves that the league is getting a lot more competitive,” Kessler said. “There’s going to be a battle to be the top spot...
...number of antipoverty activists closely examining which communities and contractors are getting stimulus dollars, and so far he says the picture doesn't look bright for already marginalized "low-opportunity" zones and minority-owned firms. The lion's share of road and other construction work in Florida has gone to venues like airports and new highways that usually benefit more affluent suburbs, Perera argues. And as of September, less than 10% of the $330 million in stimulus projects awarded directly from federal agencies to Florida-based contractors had gone to minority-owned firms, according to a study...
...spend 50% more per person in areas with the lowest unemployment than it will in communities with the highest." In Illinois, President Obama's home state, a Chicago Public Radio investigation this fall found that less than 10% of the Department of Transportation's stimulus contracts had gone to "disadvantaged business enterprises," or DBEs, even though the state says it benchmarked almost a quarter of the dollars for those minority- and women-owned firms. Less than 2% of it had gone to black-owned businesses. Florida's Department of Transport doesn't have a specific DBE participation target for stimulus...