Word: playground
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...Dubai is a very small place," says Joseph Wan, the group chief executive of Harvey Nichols, "but it's the safe haven of the whole region, the playground of the Middle East, an attractive, exclusive market with all this novelty." Indeed, mall shopping is the No. 1 leisure activity here for both the wealthy local Emirati people and the white-collar expats who outnumber them. After all, there's not much else to do in this heat?except build more malls, as South Asian migrant workers do in round-the-clock shifts...
...never forget that night. The three of us were together, as we had been for years through games of tag on the playground, truth-or-dare in the haymow, junior high sleepovers, and high school dances. But tonight we were children no longer—we were young adults, sitting together quietly on the night one of us lost her father...
...selling out the $40 million palace he built for Avenue Q. To draw those crowds, even a Broadway hit like Hairspray has to make compromises: an abridged, intermission-free version opened last month at Luxor, and the casino expects it to re-energize the 12-year-old pyramidal playground...
...choice for your name is better than the one you already have. Of course, it gets complicated because in most cases the name you already have wasn’t your choice either. Further, so many people use nicknaming for evil, and not for good, the ultimate form of playground teasing, it’s easy to see why the nicknamed might get disgruntled.But if a rose by any other name would smell as sweet, why do we care? Apparently our identities lie inside, not by the name itself. To an extent, it’s true. We often hope...
...Harvard students, there are few greater delights than hearing our own voices, and section is the great playground for this pastime...