Word: half-year
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Some $500,000 of Lakian's funds were listed as receipts from Lakian himself. He raised $29,524 in the second quarter, bringing his total for the half-year...
...make matters even more difficult, at the same time I was getting warnings of default, I was getting invitations to Junior Parents' Weekend events. The Requirements Office (Holyoke Center), it seems, did not recognize my advanced standing and thought the semester I'd taken off left me behind a half-year. The Registrar (10 Garden Street) got the advanced standing part right, but calculated my graduation date as March, even though I had to haggle with the office to register for spring semester courses...
...after a half-year in a place that over the millennia has known its fair share of miracles, I don't count my continued existence as one of them. In fact, given what's been happening in America lately, I might even say I stood a better chance "surviving" over there than I do back here...
...been rung down on the long-running farce starring would-be film mogul Giancarlo Parretti. Last week a Delaware judge confirmed Parretti's removal from the board of MGM-Pathe studios. A onetime waiter who bought the studio in 1990 for $1.3 billion, Parretti accumulated huge debts during his half-year tenure as CEO, forcing the company into involuntary bankruptcy. The studio's chief lender, the French bank Credit Lyonnais, pumped in $145 million to restore solvency but demanded his ouster. The Delaware judge agreed, condemning Parretti's mismanagement of the firm. The downward slide continued on Dec. 27, when...
...same time, the English Department voted to increase the enrollment size of the sophomore and junior tutorials, while cutting their length to a half-year, to facilitate the large number of honors candidates...