Word: lurching
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...these arguments are misguided. Yale-style housing would neither improve first-year advising nor the first-year social experience. Advising within the Houses is not perfect. Concentrations have shifted much of their advising duties to a limited amount of resident and non-resident tutors, leaving many students in a lurch. Integrating first-year students into the already strained system would yield no tangible positive results. In addition, those students assigned to the Quad would have a harder time accessing advising resources than their counterparts assigned to the River...
...revenue for supposed contracts to renovate distressed housing. When the FBI finally unraveled the scheme, Minkow managed to pay off his Mafia loan sharks ("You can't mess with them," he says), but some $300 million worth of company stock was suddenly worthless, leaving hundreds of investors in the lurch...
Bush's epithet slinging was a flop in all three debates. Not because the nation has taken a lurch to the left--Kennedy remains the anachronistic embodiment of a welfare-state liberalism long discarded by the American public. No, it was more likely that the President had overdosed on invective during the long, long course of this election year and the public has become inured to it. Kerry helped that process along by his demeanor throughout (with the exception of his gratuitous mention of the Vice President's gay daughter). The Senator's dignity and consistency made Bush's attacks...
...since the GOP convention, Kerry?s responses to all of Bush?s attacks have been ineffective. The campaign has done little else than lurch in one direction, then turn and lurch in another, not sticking to a message for more than a few days. As Bush has enjoyed his post-convention bounce, Kerry?s staff - which now includes almost every Democratic consultant alive - has been split over strategy. With the President beating Kerry on the issue of national security and the war in Iraq, how should Kerry respond? Should he hit back hard on national security, or fight...
...leaving women wondering whether labor activism is a sphere in which they are even welcome. Overlooked by feminists whose objectives are more cultural than economic, overlooked by union organizers who historically downplay gendered issues like sexual harassment and the glass ceiling, working women have been left in the lurch more than once. And more than once, they have taken matters into their own hands...