Word: leste
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...also checked out the slope of my neck, made sure I didn't wear a watch (lest she add a quarter of an inch to the cuff) and finally asked whether I felt uncomfortable about anything?you know, bodywise. Now, I'm not in the Burt Reynolds or Sean Connery league, but I did confess to a rogue tuft of chest hair in the spot between the top two buttons of a traditional dress shirt. If I wear a tie, no one knows. If I don't, I look like Teen Wolf. Agustina suggested this could be remedied with...
Drunk driving is certainly a scourge that endangers thousands of innocent bystanders annually. Nevertheless, we have to take a sober approach to the problem, lest we zealously impose unnecessary restrictions that infringe on individual privacy and assume guilt rather than innocence...
...usual easy-listening exotica shrink-wrapped for the appetizer course. The melodies traipse from Cairo to Dakar; the lyrics are in Wolof; the liner notes offer translation and explain that the songs are about Sufi scholars, most of whom seem to practice a West African strain of Islamic Calvinism. Lest you fear learning something, N'Dour's voice sweeps and swells with a passion that makes listening to him even in complete ignorance a form of enlightenment...
...seven years after the Core Curriculum burst onto the stage of higher education to cheers and high acclaim, it is about to be booed off. Yet it would be foolish to birth a new general education curriculum in isolation; the Core’s record must be carefully considered, lest the new system repeat its flaws. Change must begin with a fundamental shift in the Core’s administrative structure. Currently, a distinct lack of discerning judgment and capacity for constructive criticism plagues the Core’s current stewards: the Faculty’s Core Standing Committee...
...hope in each is to create an enterprise that looks like a local company, but happens to be owned by a company in India." Tata says the group's success proves his approach is good business, as well as good karma: "We are not in anything for charity." Lest this all sounds too good to be true, the group is not free from controversy. In 2001, Tata Finance sacked its managing director and five other senior managers over alleged financial irregularities. In January, Tata Steel's plans to build a mill in the eastern state of Orissa went tragically awry...