Word: pasts
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Dates: during 2010-2019
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...they've won the Super Bowl if they can earn more than Avatar on their opening day. That's happened just three times in the month it's been in theaters: on Dec. 23 with Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel; on Christmas day with Sherlock Holmes; and this past Friday. The Book of Eli, a postapocalyptic Western about a martial artist whose greatest artillery is his copy of the Bible, took in $11.7 million that day, beating the Pandorans' $10.4 million. Avatar then stormed back to take the Saturday crown, $17.2 million to $11.8 million, and, according to studio...
...those North Allston residents who hoped to see their neighborhood revitalized by the expansion of Harvard’s campus, the past few weeks have not brought the desired holiday tidings...
...With their leadership, the involvement of other interested faculty, and community input, this could really lay the foundation for a much better way forward than what we’ve been looking at in the recent past,” Mattison said...
Harvard’s money managers have said in the past that maintaining the University’s “AAA” credit rating is one of their top priorities. Though many colleges and universities, including Dartmouth, have seen their credit ratings downgraded due to fallout from the economic recession, outsiders remain confident in Harvard’s ability to repay its debt...
...passports and ID cards relied on their expiring documents to prove their identities and French nationality. But in the mid-1990s, the country started strengthening the verification requirements on suspicions that significant numbers of foreigners had made bogus claims of citizenship to obtain French passports. In the past few years, the rules have become even more stringent. According to the Justice Ministry, about 18,000 people, or 12% of all those who tried to renew their passports or ID cards, were rebuffed in 2007 because they didn't have irrefutable proof of nationality - up from 8,000 people...