Word: impressment
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...completed by the 2011 deadline - the centenary of the Titanic's launch - those missing millions, just under a third of the TSP's estimated cost, will have to be gathered at a rate of knots, largely from Northern Ireland's private sector. "Belfast people can be hard to impress", says Ambrose. "But the TSP will rival the best attractions in the world. After 30 years of bad press, that's a huge step for this city...
...also curious if I should be so upset about my breakup. As a society, we treat single people over 30 with condescension or pity, but maybe the problem was that I had hurtled into a serious relationship too young. I know that in my 20s I had wanted to impress my family and my heterosexual friends with my stability. Maybe I should have waited...
...speak our language, it has been the silent artists of French culture who have hit the headlines: the mime artist Marcel Marceau, Jacques Cousteau, our choreographers, our circus acts. They represent our quiet resistance to the hubbub of the world. But we would still like to impress you, modestly, in the French style; to make ourselves heard, shout a bit, throw a few tantrums. This isn't easy when, with your powerful American cultural industries, your worldwide machinery for projecting image, sound, software, desires, you have been, if not loved, at least respected almost everywhere in the world...
...goalkeeper Adam Hahn. “Given that tournament seedings are coming out soon, this was a must-win game for us to go into the postseason.”With only 24 at-large spots available for the NCAA Tournament, the Crimson had one last chance to impress the selection committee. Entering with the ninth-best scoring attack in the nation with 2.31 goals per game, the impetus was on Harvard to provide an offensive display worthy of continuing its season. After starting off sluggishly in the first 35 minutes of the game, the Crimson’s offense...
There’s that new-paint smell and some spiffier bathrooms, but the improvements to the Malkin Athletic Center (MAC) are mostly too subtle to impress students, according to gym-goers interviewed yesterday. After the MAC closed for improvements last March, athletes migrated to Hemenway Gymnasium. Students said working out at the TV-outfitted, air-conditioned law school gym fed high expectations for the MAC’s re-opening Tuesday. “I thought they were going to do something with it like add another floor or something crazy like that,” said Shane...