Word: lows
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Spiegelman said the University has sold 13 ofthese buildings to date. She said the Universitysold several of the buildings to the city ofCambridge--a move that has created 100 units ofadditional low income housing for city residents...
...have come from Atlanta, Geneva, Jakarta and Vienna. Our backgrounds are as diverse as our interests. We have taken classes in Acadian, Afro-American art history, archaeology and astrophysics. Some of us are on the fast track to success, others on the low road to glory. A few of us aren't in the driver's seat at all, but even we will get there somehow...
...bright engineer foundered when confronted with practical policy decisions. Habibie boasted of being able to "leapfrog" low-skill industries, which would have given needed employment to the country's vast mass of unskilled laborers, and move straight into expensive high-tech ventures. The billions of dollars of public money he spent on his strategic companies did little to advance industrial development. His most extravagant pet project, a $2 billion attempt to build an indigenous aircraft, the propeller-driven N-250, was deprived of state funding as a condition of IMF assistance...
...fact, most talking to oneself involves a low order of business--pettiness, self-justification, improvised rants or what the French call l'esprit d'escalier, the things that you should have said a moment ago, lines you think of while coming down the stairs. (The British call it "taxi wit," which may prove that the French think faster than the Brits.) This debased muttering is directed at salesclerks, ticket-writing cops and even would-be muggers: "You know, son, when I was in Nam .." Talking to oneself is inherently a private act, not meant to be shared, and as such...
...WINDS OF WAR India is developing nuclear arms, but does it really want to use them? In both winter and summer low-level and high-level wind patterns suggest that if a bomb were dropped on Pakistan (west) or southern China (east), deadly debris and fallout would be blown back across huge swaths of India. How's that for increased national security...