Word: pales
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...vital social services in the Cambridge community. Budget decreases for Work Force have been mirrored by cuts for the Community Computer Center and programs that offer support for affordable housing. The worst may not be over yet: City officials are worried that the current round of budget-slashing will pale in comparison to future cuts undermining basic services like fire and police departments. Cambridge isn’t the only place in Massachusetts to feel the pinch of a statewide budget shortfall. Recently, in response to spiraling state revenues, Governor Deval L. Patrick ’78 was forced...
...which is pretty comfortable. McCain is free to argue that Obama will raise taxes on people making less than $250,000. My bet is that whoever wins the election will be forced to. But his apparent belief that the very expression "spread the wealth" puts Obama beyond the pale is so out of touch that it's almost touching. It belongs on the golf courses of Arizona, not on the campaign trail...
...snippets of an old Shropshire tune. “Hey nonny, hey nonny...In the spring time, the only pretty ring time...” Distracted as she was, she forgot to knock, and thus did she intrude on the following scene: Frederick, sweat shining weakly on his pale, mottled torso, was sprawled across a chaise lounge. He was on the verge of tears, or maybe he had just finished crying. He was not alone. Frederick’s head lay in the lap of a man who, while he was not truly shirtless, could not have been called clothed...
...Pale and plainly dressed, a woman we will soon come to know as Juliette (Kristin Scott Thomas) sits alone in soulless airport waiting room. She expresses no visible emotions, and maybe she is too stunned to feel any. It's also possible that she is feeling so many emotions, and that they are so contradictory, that she cannot respond to any of them except with puzzled silence...
...billion. The largest higher educational endowment to announce a loss so far, the University of Pennsylvania, dropped 3.9 percent on the year. But the Philadelphia school still bested the negative 4.4 percent median return of 165 peer institutions, as measured by the Trust Universe Comparison Service. While these returns pale in comparison to the consistent double-digit returns posted by the wealthiest university endowments over the past few years, they remain robust in light of the worst financial downturn in decades—one that has prompted a U.S. government plan to purchase up to $700 billion of toxic securities...