Word: mantra
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Thirteen years later, after I had devoted three weeks and countless hours of my senior year to watching postseason baseball both on TV and (thanks to the kindness of friends) at Fenway, the phone rang. It was my dad, repeating his old mantra, holding back his own frustration. I like to think I've learned a bit from my relatively short career as a Red Sox fan, that each loss is a little less painful than the one before, cushioned by the memories of errors more egregious and runners stranded even closer to home. Maybe I have, but Monday night...
They seem to subscribe to the mantra of The Garment District and Dollar-a-Pound: shop happy...
...Living Wage Campaign has specifically not affiliated itself directly with the union's efforts, instead focusing on its mantra of $10 an hour for all Harvard employees...
...dollar's plight is the first major challenge for Treasury Secretary Larry Summers, 44, the economist who succeeded Robert ("Just Right") Rubin three months ago. Summers' mantra--"A strong dollar is in the national interest of the United States"--was the same one repeated for six years by Rubin, a period during which the Dow rose a mountainous 7,000 points. In contrast, the as yet brief Summers era has seen the index drop some 900 points. But Summers says his focus is on "the fundamentals," such as creating a budget surplus, which he argues is best for both...
Diversity is the mantra at Harvard, except on the fruit table...