Word: moment
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...Aside from a glut of straight up banal sentences - "Biddinger's great talent, Billy knew, was that at any sudden moment he could drop his easy friendliness, let his dark eyes narrow into two slits like gun holes, and turn mean." (Slits like gun holes?) - one of Blum's three main characters, D.W. Griffith, doesn't even really belong in the book. Despite Blum's best efforts to incorporate the director, Griffith plays no part in the crime, investigation or subsequent court case. The book's epilogue, in which Griffith, Darrow, and Burns briefly walk by each other...
Even for a proud old bank like Belgo-Dutch giant Fortis, with nearly 300-year-old roots and Catherine the Great among its historic clients, playing a role in last fall's $100 billion takeover of Dutch rival ABN Amro was a big moment. In the largest financial services deal ever signed, Fortis - part of a consortium alongside the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) and Spain's Santander - put up $34 billion in return for ABN's Dutch banking business, among other assets...
...About 1 in 5 students nationwide smoke, and just how they'll be sanctioned on PASSHE campuses if they violate the ban remains unclear. At the moment, most smokers can expect a warning if they're caught lighting up; during a "smoke-in" event at Clarion on Sept. 15, campus police passed out yellow citation cards to protesters who were smoking. But, Marshall says, it is the state's department of health that will ultimately determine whether offenders should pay a fine, and how much that should be. Which still may not thwart all smokers. "If I'm going...
...Cambridge to celebrate the Harvard Gay and Lesbian Caucus’s 25th anniversary, the country’s first-ever reunion specifically for gay alumni. Attendees and organizers said the conference is a sign of years’ worth of growth.“It is a culminating moment. There has been such an extraordinary amount of progress on issues of interest to LGBT people since we started in 1983,” said philosophy professor Warren Goldfarb ’69, who was the first openly gay professor at Harvard.The weekend was centered around a series of events...
...whole day on Saturday. Jitijaruek said, while Kordsomboon cannot “express himself well in English,” he has communicated his cooking skills and passion for satisfying his customers through his dishes and through new specialties with which he constantly experiments. Kordsomboon said that the proudest moment in his cooking career was when a writer from The Boston Globe came to interview him, several months after Spice opened and just as the restaurant’s name was being spread through word of mouth. The interview, which was published in 2000, he said, was rewarding...