Word: momentous
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...knew that one wrong moment and we’d fall off the cliff,” he said...
...brilliant reds and purples. My week was made.When school let out, I ran the mile back home. I would’ve skipped home this wonderful spring day, but if anyone else by chance saw me, I didn’t want them to think I was gay. The moment I got in my house, I dropped my backpack on the ground and I jumped on the couch to commence in my daily routine of watching TV. My favorite show was on when my Mom came in the door. She normally didn’t come back till at earliest...
...able to offer more competitive rates and arrangements for borrowers. “Everyone shares profits equally through lower rates,” Foley said, explaining that the credit union acts in the interest of all its members. Harvard administrators are not negotiating with any other lenders at the moment, University spokesman Kevin Galvin said, as the graduate schools have already begun to accept students for the next academic year. —Staff writer Athena Y. Jiang can be reached at ajiang@fas.harvard.edu. —Staff writer June Q. Wu can be reached at junewu@fas.harvard.edu...
...member of the second bracket two summers ago, I experienced simultaneous waves of horror and jealousy toward my investment-banking cohorts so strong that, for a moment, I wondered what it would be like to be an exhausted but well-paid shell of my former self. I also had such sudden feelings of moral inadequacy compared to the wunderkind that I would glance at my $15 well drink and ask whomever was around (sometimes a stranger, sometimes to myself): “What am I doing in New York...
Plouffe offered several explanations, including tough attacks from the Clinton camp, the portrayal of Obama as a “rock star” in the media, Clinton’s “moment of emotion,” and a “subterranean battle with John McCain for independent voters...