Word: particularity
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...just allow biotech companies and alcohol in the city, you’ll have no more rodents,” Bercaw said at a council meeting in February. Rats may have an opponent in being the dominant public nuisance issue of the campaign: leaf blowers. “Their particular pitch—irregular and whiny—is particularly irritating,” said city resident Cynthia Kennedy Sam in a representative attack on leaf blowers. “They harm our lungs and cause cancer and premature death.” Though some candidates, like challenger Sam Seidel...
...while the schools have made progress during his administration, Committee member Patricia M. Nolan ’80 in particular has argued that the improvements are too small given Cambridge’s extraordinarily high per pupil expenditures (about $23,300 per student...
...play the two ‘sane’ characters are proven to be pretty much as crazy as the four patients, and the four patients throughout the play prove to have quite a sense of logic.” The four patients are not diagnosed with particular disorders. Rather, each character represents a general “type.” There is Jackie (played by Sarah A. Sherman ’09) an extreme introvert, Thomas (Benjamin C. Cosgrove ’10), a man with the mind of a child, Madeleine (Eneniziaogochukwu “Zia?...
...shared their perspectives on the role of journalism in shaping the financial behavior of the public. The panel members argued over whether financial crises could be predicted and whether the general population could respond to such information in order to minimize the extent of a potential economic downturn. In particular, they addressed the recent financial crisis, which was exacerbated by the subsequent collapse of funds that contained mortgage-backed bonds. Jane B. Quinn, a contributing editor for Newsweek, and Floyd Norris, chief financial correspondent for The New York Times, were joined by Jeffrey A. Frankel, professor at the Kennedy School...
That creates a particular problem in trying to figure out which donations are being funneled through proxies. Fund-raisers face pressure to gather large numbers of checks but have no responsibility to screen them. Fugitive businessman Norman Hsu drew attention to the $850,000 he bundled for Clinton because of some of the donations came from people of modest means. In August, two Michigan lawyers were indicted on charges of soliciting and reimbursing proxy donors who contributed $125,000 to John Edwards' 2004 presidential...