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...Nuclear-power-plant grade...
...single week, temporarily shutting down the federal government (at a cost of $100 million per day) and closing schools up and down the East Coast. Airlines canceled thousands of flights, while thousands of homes in Washington--where winds reached up to 40 m.p.h. (55 km/h)--were left without power. At least 750 D.C. workers were dispatched to clear accumulations that topped 3 ft. (1 m) in some areas; some reported breakdowns of their cleanup equipment, which was unaccustomed to such strenuous...
What is the endgame here? Greece has big debts relative to the size of its $357 billion economy (about 120% of GDP). It no longer has the option of eating into those debts by inflating its currency. In fact, it has no power to use monetary policy to ease its pain, as the Federal Reserve has been doing in a big way in the U.S. The only options for Greece are to 1) scrimp and save to convince creditors that it can keep paying them off, 2) convince its fellow euro-zone countries--or maybe the International Monetary Fund...
...company's hallmark but also in the superb editing of Elvis clips (by Ivan Dudynsky) and the savvy sampling of the musical material (by Erich van Tourneau) that revises and refreshes the Presley oeuvre. No tribute show can touch this one in its level of sophistication and its power of evocation...
Former teammate M. Nicole Corriero ’05 praised Cahow’s “deceptive speed,” and Harvard athletics spokesman Timothy J. Williamson pointed to her demonstrated power...