Word: massing
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Dates: during 2010-2019
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This plan was cooked up by a passionate group of juniors and seniors who have taken it upon themselves to transform the student section at men’s basketball games into a giant mass of supporting fans...
...relationship between Clara and the protagonist with the warmth and poignancy of two kindred spirits attempting to invent a hermetic universe for themselves. They invent the terms “otherpeoples” and “Shukoffs” in their very first conversation, referring to the mass of boring, unimaginative humans who surround them. Their conversation continues, full of earnest jargon about “trenches,” “lying low,” and “pandangst,” which is supposed to encode their feeling of deep emotional vulnerability. Clara...
...amidst the sea of green was the continued emergence of freshman Alena Tofte and the women’s nordic team, which placed sixth in the women’s 15k classic mass start race. The weekend before, Tofte had placed 18th in the classic event despite falling over. Nordic coach Chris City ’94 had estimated that she would have placed 13th or 14th had she stayed on her skis...
...found it was very easy to get sucked into that population," says Dr. Victoria McEvoy, medical director and chief of pediatrics at Mass General West Medical Group, who has treated and written about the pitfalls of taking on high-profile clients. "One, because they're interesting people. But they're also very narcissistic in general, and needy, and as a result, if you want to be part of their care, often you can find yourself going beyond normal boundaries and going above and beyond what you would do for other patients." She adds, "It's very easy to slip over...
...long as mass corruption, dirty money and banking secrecy are not eradicated together as a single priority, you'll never defeat the sub-activity within that funding terrorism," says François Valerian, head of private sector programs at the Berlin-based anti-corruption organization Transparency International. "Western nations recognize the urgency to treat this problem when it involves terrorism, but they become more pragmatic when it's in the form of ordinary corruption bleeding entire countries...