Word: jammed
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Charlie Gasparino's résumé is jam-packed: on-air editor for CNBC and contributor to the Daily Beast, the New York Post and Forbes. But at least one Wall Street executive has a different description: "A monumental asshole, who added dramatically to the financial instability during '08 and early '09." Gasparino's news bulletins (or rumormongering, depending on your view) on CNBC during that period often moved the market. He's well aware of the animosity. "They don't like the fact that I called them on the carpet," he told me. "I mean, you are not going...
...join the crew in pushing the boat off the beach. Then jump in and jam your feet into the ropes on the boat floor as the captain guns the outboards. Bottlenose dolphins are common - look for fins breaking the surface. Humpbacks also abound in season (August to November). Graceful mantas can be spotted by their white undersides as they turn backflips under the surface. But there is nothing, of course, to beat seeing a whale shark. These leviathans evolved more than 60 million years ago, and swimming with one is the marine equivalent of walking with a dinosaur. See visitmozambique.net...
With 11 minutes to go and the local rivals knotted at 49, the backcourt star faked a shot and weaved his way into the lane. His two-handed jam in traffic broke the tie and was followed on the other end with a block by senior Pat Magnarelli. The oft-injured forward, playing in his first game in nearly one and a half years, had a solid night on both ends of the floor, leading his team with six rebounds...
...just as FM was wondering how community service would fit into our jam-packed schedules, Sonja Sohn shot down all our excuses and offered a way to combat the problem at its roots. “Yeah, you got a research paper, yeah you got a boyfriend or a girlfriend, but you could spend a couple of hours a week mentoring a kid,†said Sohn...
During the worst periods of tension at the Law School, faculty refused to approve hiring decisions because they feared that allowing the school to hire someone with an opposing methodology or ideology would limit opportunities to hire academics with their own outlook. This log-jam resulted in a shrinking faculty at one point in the school’s history...