Word: ironic
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Further investigation revealed that the bomb was made in a cast-iron pipe similar to those used in other bombings in Massachusetts at the time...
Whether rent control was an iron curtain descended across Cambridge is a matter for debate, but in 1994, rent control's opponents had an insight into how to tear it down...
Prizes were awarded to Noel C. Allen '96 for "The Destruction of Self: The Poetry of Olga Orozco"; David E. Benjamin '96 for "Report From Iron Mountain: A Look at Modern American History"; Manjul Bhargava '96 for "On P-orderings and polynomial functions on arbitrary subsets of Dedekind-type rings"; Joshua S. Bloom '96 for "Studies of Gamma-Ray Bursts as Standard Candles and Globular Cluster X-ray Binaries as Dynamical Probes"; and Cliff W. Chiang '96 for "'If answerable Style I Can Obtain...': An Analysis and Account of Illustrating Paradise Lost...
Franklin now claims the urge to preach first came upon him in 1985, watching his father speaking before thousands in Romania, years before the Iron Curtain's rending. John Wesley White remembers differently. White is an associate evangelist with the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association (B.G.E.A.), the corporate entity that includes Billy and all who help him spread the Word; associate evangelists preach crusades in towns too small for Billy. Franklin, newly born again, had given testimony at several of White's revivals, and Billy reportedly took notice. White remembers a conversation one day in the early 1980s: "You know, Franklin...
Teachers, doctors, policemen, columnists are not affected by the minimum wage. Raise it, and no middle- or upper-class worker loses her job. But it is an iron law of economics--even Democrats cannot repeal it--that when you increase the price of something, you reduce demand for it. Raise the price of minimum-wage labor, and there will be less...