Word: heeling
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...Aman Verjee, a seond-year HBS student, said Harvard students' infamous arrogance could be viewed as a strength as well as an "Achilles' heel...
...took off the gloves. The central bank pushed rates up half a percentage point in May, the largest single hike in five years. The benchmark federal-funds rate jumped to 6.5%, the highest in nine years. Now Greenspan had committed to a course that would bring the economy to heel. Or to rest...
...proved to be the Achilles' heel of the economy in the past. In fact, higher energy prices played a role in each of the past four recessions. In every instance, more expensive energy forced businesses to pass on the extra costs to consumers. Workers also demanded more pay to offset the higher cost of living...
...reserved crucifixion primarily for capital crimes and discontinued the practice in the 4th century. Historians learned considerably more about its specifics in 1968, when the remains of a man crucified in his mid 30s were discovered north of Jerusalem with a 7-in. iron nail still embedded in the heel. The state of the bones indicated that the condemned man's arms were outstretched and that his feet had been placed sideways, with the nail driven first through a small block of wood and then through both heels into the cross. Later the wood block would prevent the feet from...
...First, by Thursday night McCain-Feingold may have an Achilles' heel: non-severability. That vote, a bid to make the entire bill contingent on the constitutionality of all its parts, will attract not only overt enemies of the bill but covert ones too, and could be a close...