Word: plaines
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...itself enough respect to be picked over a team like Lehigh.The Mountain Hawks have a decent defense but Cornell has too many playmakers, most notably the running back duo of Randy Barbour and Luke Siwula. On the offensive side, Lehigh is underperforming at best but more likely is just plain unimpressive. Overcoming a Big Red squad that held Yale to 14 points requires more than what the Mountain Hawks have to offer.Prediction: Cornell 21, Lehigh 13Record to Date: 4-2—Staff writer Loren Amor can be reached at lamor@fas.harvard.edu...
...that's true, isn't there someone at fault besides voters and their elected Representatives? Say, for instance, the mainstream business press who might have made those consequences plain...
...called by Bangladeshis, TIME reporters suggested the death toll was above a million. Ask people in Dhaka today and they'll tell you the true figure of Bengali civilians murdered by West Pakistani troops and death squads guided by collaborators was three times that. Bangladesh sits atop an alluvial plain, so those bent on genocide needed only to dump bodies in rivers or, as at the Jalladkhana, down the wells and conduits of local water-pumping stations, where corpses were literally flushed away into the sea. "These are crimes so horrible that even God wouldn't forgive you," says...
...Cohn, describing his “hard, Jewish, stubborn streak” and noting of a certain expression that it is how “his compatriot must have looked when he saw the promised land.” This is the worst of Hemingway: completely unnecessary, uncontrolled racism, plain and simple. Rather than taking the time to describe Cohn as a person, an individual, with individualized attributes, Hemingway just lazily throws catch-all racist epithets that go no more than skin deep. But this time, I managed to hang on beyond those discouraging first pages. I quickly got caught...
...Hence the action. If AIG croaked, all the players who thought they had their bets hedged would suddenly have "unbalanced books." That could lead to firms other than AIG failing, which could lead to still more firms failing, which could lead to what economists call "systemic failure." Or, in plain terms, a financial death spiral in which firms suck one another into the abyss...