Word: impressment
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Upstairs on the Square: 1. Super expensive but super cool Harvard Square restaurant, sure to impress your lady on a date...
...simple foreign-exchange office on the city's exclusive Bahnhofstrasse, where Switzerland's largest banks?and costliest jewelers?are housed. "Asians love history," says Meier. "If you can show them 120 years of history, it gives them an enormous level of comfort." Other firms find their own ways to impress, not least with a seductive patina of opulence. A stark, cool modernism pervades Credit Suisse's Singapore office, while the Persian rugs and somber oakwood in Citigroup's office across town convey a reassuring, grandfatherly solidity...
When he refused to deploy to Iraq in June, Army Lt. Ehren Watada said he was following his conscience and upholding his duty not to obey illegal orders. But that didn't impress military officials, who promptly charged him with violating Army rules and sent him on a path toward a likely court-martial...
...rescuers to the disaster site, the desperate attempts to comprehend and get organized--is electrifyingly realized. In a movie age dominated by fictional disasters, it is wonderful to see Hollywood technology mobilized to make a worthwhile point, which is, finally, a very simple one: that under the impress of unimaginable chaos, human beings are capable of simple yet astonishing courage and altruism. Even in the place where a movie like this could go soft--in showing the lives of the trapped men's families--it maintains its unadorned simplicity. The waiting of the wives (Maria Bello and Maggie Gyllenhaal) mirrors...
...taking time away from the many opportunities was too difficult, and the personal choice I made to live a jam-packed life has ultimately been fulfilling.Nevertheless, I haven’t been able to ignore the message that Lewis, some professors, and even peers have spent years trying to impress upon me. Last week, a casual breakfast with a resident tutor turned into an unofficial advising session. I mentioned I was shying away from writing a thesis due to a heavy load of extracurriculars, courses, a fall internship, and job searching. “I need to slow down...