Word: hill
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...Administration's priorities, including a strong consumer agency. It received no Republican votes. Senate Banking Committee chairman Christopher Dodd has been trying to forge a bipartisan consensus around a similar bill, but Republicans have made it clear that the consumer agency is a deal breaker. And the Hill is swarming with financial lobbyists who are desperate to preserve the status quo. (See judgments of Obama's first year, issue by issue...
Nestled among bamboo forests in rolling hills a 2 ½-hour drive from Shanghai, Moganshan is a once glamorous hill-station retreat that is just beginning to reawaken. In the early decades of the 20th century, foreign residents of Shanghai - later followed by rich Chinese families - flocked to these hills for relief during the humid summers. They built sprawling houses complete with swimming pools, tennis courts and dance floors. After the communist takeover, Moganshan retreated into obscurity, with many of the mansions crumbling into ruin. But in the past decade, visitors have been drawn back to it by its serene...
...With her breezy style, she was much more subversive than anyone probably was aware of at the time. When stand-up comics were almost universally men, she leveled the playing field with lines like "I'll never forget the first time I saw my husband standing on a hill, his hair blowing in the breeze--and he too proud to run after it." She always talked about her "rotten kid," when people didn't do that. She was smart and attractive and chipped away at that hallowed idea of a wife and a mother--the idea that as a woman...
Daniel C. Hill, a lawyer from Charlestown, has also declared his intention to run. On Tuesday, Chelsea real estate broker Michael Albano told the Boston Herald that he planned to formally announce his candidacy on Thursday, and the Boston Globe has named Sal DiDomenico, Galluccio’s chief of staff, as a potential candidate...
Willow's predicament is hardly surprising. To some white congregants, naming a person of another color to tell you what Scripture means, week in and week out, crosses an internal boundary between "diversity" (positive) and "affirmative action" (potentially unnerving). Daniel Hill, a former Willow young-adult pastor who founded his own fully multicultural River City Community Church in Chicago, says, "There's a tipping point where the dominant group feels threatened." Consciously or unconsciously, Hybels stands at that point...