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...Might make me hungrier afterwards. I even opted out of the house meal budget so as not to waste my small savings on luxuries like spices and meat. Frozen meals were for the well-heeled and well-fed. Finding a granola bar in my suitcase was an occasion for outright celebration...
...once ran the Hollinger flagship publications Saturday Night magazine and the National Post newspaper, testified for the defense. Whyte bolstered the defense's claim that Black's expensive parties, paid for in part by the company, were work related. Whyte's fidelity to his former employer was also stated outright. "I suppose I'm loyal to him," said Whyte, when questioned by prosecutor Julie Ruder. Whyte also told the court that a $100,000 bonus he received from Black after Black sold the Post was given "in recognition of our ongoing relationship...
...popular and effective Mayor, and he's got the money to finance a dozen campaigns, but independent campaigns tend to fail - partly because getting on the ballot in all 50 states is an excruciating process no matter how rich the candidate is. He'd probably need to win an outright majority to keep the election out of the partisan House, and it's not clear where a pro-gay-marriage, pro-gun-control, anti-death-penalty divorcee who raised taxes and banned trans fats in New York while opposing deadlines for troop withdrawals in Iraq, would find the electoral votes...
...talking until the wee hours. After their relationship became more serious, their roommates predicted that wedding bells were a foregone conclusion. Sawlit’s friends told her that she was going to be the perfect wife, and even Hastrup, just a few months into their courtship, told her outright that they would definitely be wed. Hastrup, who graduated last spring, headed back to his home state for law school at the University of California, Berkeley, but his engagement, combined with discount fares from JetBlue, kept the couple in close contact during Sawlit’s senior year...
This time, though, the Crimson rose to the occasion and cruised to a 3-1 win. Its final league match against Columbia, a breezy 3-1 triumph, clinched the title outright, as the team became the school’s first Ivy League champions of the 2006-07 school year...