Word: mammoth
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...Foreign governments and private institutions, suspicious of the spendthrift habits, mammoth bank accounts and princely villas that have become trademarks of nouveau riche Russians abroad, are beginning to close their doors and their borders to some of the richest. And many powerful Russian tycoons must think twice before boarding an outbound flight lest they share the fate of Pavel Borodin, the erstwhile Kremlin property manager and multimillionaire who was arrested last month in New York on an extradition request from Switzerland alleging involvement in money laundering...
...friends in Princeton, N.J., have once again led the way in student aid, ensuring that no student has to fret about dragging a family into financial hardship by attending a costly undergraduate institution. As Harvard makes the news for amassing a mammoth endowment, Princeton makes the news for putting its endowment to good use. Harvard should be ashamed for its lackluster record on financial aid and should take steps to ease the burden of undergraduate tuition, room and board...
...planning to stick with the Origin Diet. My guess is that some of the more rabid ancient-diet advocates wouldn't consider it a true paleolithic prescription. But I think Somer has the right idea. Just be glad you don't have to hunt down a woolly mammoth for dinner...
...hard football fan, but I always catch the Super Bowl. "The Game" is a unique microcosm of American culture, consistently bringing a mammoth slice of the population to the television. A plethora of testosterone-charged males use the Super Bowl as a means to machismo...
Speaking of the slick man from Little Rock, Bill should have been utilized more by Al. Understandably, the veep wanted to separate himself from Bill due to the sexual and financial scandal that unrelentingly followed the former Governor of Arkansas. Trying to step out of Bill's mammoth shadow, Al rarely mentioned his connection to the president and told Bill to stay home. I can see why Al would initially want to create this distance, but come crunch time in the fall, Al should have campaigned with Bill on the issues and sent Bill out to preach the gospel...