Word: hashing
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...trace. By the end of Tuesday, the Dow had dropped 1,400 points in five days, the biggest point loss ever. As increasingly gloomy job numbers pile on top of the continuing problems in the credit market, it seems the U.S. government may be running out of economic hash to sling...
...this arena. Being original is nice, but if other colleges learned that tailgating and watching sports is fun, why can’t Harvard play copycat? The act of watching sports together is nothing short of a religious rite at other schools. Come Monday, conversation-starved students can re-hash the game over their cereal in the dining hall and bond with their housemates over the events of the Friday before. Why was the night game was so much fun? It’s simple: because it didn’t feel like Harvard at all. For all the things...
...unofficially that all outdoor gatherings in the months before the Games are banned. Clubs that had operated with impunity are suddenly having trouble with their licenses. Human-rights activists, public-interest lawyers and other dissenting voices have been jailed or harassed. Police even detained and interrogated members of the Hash House Harriers, a beery running club, suspicious that the flour they used to mark their runs might be part of a terrorist attack...
...running out of time to be vague on climate change. On Wednesday the world's 16 top carbon emitters will meet in Japan to further hash out climate-change action, under President Bush's major emitters process, but don't expect any more progress. If nothing else, this G-8 summit - Bush's last in office - made it clear that we can't expect any change from the U.S. until a new President is in office. Both John McCain and Barack Obama back stronger action, but a successor to the Kyoto Protocol needs to be negotiated...
...along his wife and two daughters, who sat on either side of Buffett. When the menus arrived, Buffett, now 77 years old, joked with the girls that he doesn't eat anything he wouldn't touch when he was less than 5. His order: a medium-rare steak with hash browns and a cherry coke - a fitting choice, given that his company, Berkshire Hathaway, is Coca-Cola's largest shareholder...