Word: grounded
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...dining hall, like most of above-ground Lowell, is gorgeous. With its fancy chandeliers, huge windows, yellow walls, and high ceilings, it is the perfect place to eat. When the opera comes to town (every spring), though, it gets a bit more cramped and the dining restrictions border on ridiculous—no guests allowed. It is pretty embarrassing when you show up with a non-Lowell buddy during opera season and get turned away from your own House’s dining hall. But for most of the year, Lowell is a great place to dine with friends; it?...
...rather than emotion, and he seems ready to use whatever procedural weapons are at his disposal to break the political deadlock in the approval process. Businesses have also weighed in, saying the E.U.'s reluctance to accept GMOs is costly: denying farmers money-saving technologies means European agriculture loses ground against rivals. And it runs counter to the E.U.'s ambition to foster innovation and technology; despite public hostility, Europe is home to some of the biggest biotech groups in the world. GSK Biologicals, for instance, which has headquarters just 15 miles outside Brussels, supplies about a quarter...
...carpet showdown was not the first battle over these fees, and it won't be the last. Stung by the recession and the general - and apparently permanent - ebb of advertising dollars away from network TV, media companies are searching the ground for every revenue scrap they can find. And their expensive-to-make network programming is a potentially juicy source. Whereas they used to pipe that content to cable companies for little or no cost, they now expect to be paid...
...intersex. “I had to find connections to my own life to make him seem credible so I invested Cal with details about me—he grew up in Detroit where I grew up and was born the year I was born. I needed an autobiographical ground to build this fictional narrative...
...addition to gallons of coffee, thesis-writing seniors said the most helpful opportunities that Harvard had provided them as they worked to complete this year-long endeavor were the chance to do on-the-ground research and the extra time to focus on their projects during the new January Term...