Word: nicely
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Great Depression started out with a stock market bubble that burst in 1929, as the world was going into a nice recession. Then the government started making mistakes. They passed the Smoot-Hawley tariff, they raised taxes, they became very protectionist, and the next thing you know we had the Great Depression. In Europe they made solvent banks take over insolvent banks with the result that both [kinds of] banks failed. This has all been done before. History is - I don't like saying it, but it's repeating itself. Governments are making the same old mistakes...
...Fashioned Star No question that Efron is a movie star, but of what era? Adept at comedy and solemnity, synthesizing Michael J. Fox and David Cassidy in their early adorable phases, he is, so far, a movie anachronism - a throwback to when there was a big market for nice. Utterly at ease in the camera's gaze, he's not a preener; he gives the impression of being an O.K. guy who in his spare time is also this teen heartthrob. Which may be a higher form of acting: star acting...
...well-known director in charge of a writing program is essential for attracting strong preceptors to the program.However, Harris said that the administration favored Jehn because of his previous experience with the program and vision for the future of the program.“It’s very nice if someone is well-known in New York or California, but what matters in this job is running a great program in Cambridge,” Harris said.A FORMALIZED VOICE? The Crimson spoke with multiple writing program directors who questioned how much pull a director without a professorship could have...
...sexual exploitation. Yet, when applied to Stacey’s zesty boy-toys, who enter the scene in a party bus, pounding shots and concocting such precious one-liners as “I really hope this cougar likes lamb, ’cause I’m nice, sweet, and tender,” this terminology is acceptable...
...There were some crazy wind shifts,” Stokes said. “It was nice to be more familiar than the other fleets on how to deal with the conditions on our home river...