Word: moldings
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...component is punch lines. It’s good to be funny—audiences love funny punch lines,” he says. “Also there has to be a tight flow, in the way you string things together and how you have to mold the words to accentuate the beat. The master is able to weave all these things together.”For Shaket and the other participants of OUTWIT, winning will mean measuring up to the event’s namesake. “We call it a battle of the wits...
...Smith replied. The library system was in a process of erosion even before the financial crisis, said Darnton, who worried that the cost-cutting measures of the next few years would compromise the importance of libraries on campus. But Darnton sought to stray a little from the mold of questions based on narrow interests, saying he was concerned for the library system on behalf of all of Harvard. “I think the library does represent the collective interest of the entire Faculty of Arts and Sciences—and beyond that, the entire University,” Darnton...
...Funes, a former television journalist and the first Farabundo Mart National Liberation Front candidate never to have served as a guerrilla commander, capitalized on voter disaffection with widespread poverty and soaring crime rates to win 51% of the vote. Funes, who styles himself as a political moderate in the mold of popular Brazilian President Luiz Incio Lula da Silva, pledged to unite a government still strained by the 1980-92 civil war, in which more than 70,000 people perished...
...scary time? I'd say it's an opportunity. But it wouldn't be an opportunity if it weren't a scary time," he says. The speculators are back - but they've changed; he has investors up North who are buying houses sight unseen, for cash. (The conditions? No mold, no Chinese drywall.) And then there are the newly pissed off and liberated: the guy in his 40s who's tired of watching his IRA shrivel, who calls and says, "I'm coming down," who wants six houses at $50,000 each, nice flat homes that he can rent...
...vested then-Dean of the Faculty Paul H. Buck with an epic task: to chair a committee that would reevaluate secondary and higher American education. The new initiative involved promoting and preserving democratic ideals. The resulting manifesto, the Red Book, not only proposed an answer for how to mold students into educated citizens, but also how to mold a more cohesive world community. Thousands of copies were disseminated across the United States, and the nation noticed...