Word: quietness
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...their prospects. Almost none of them warned of the downturn in the economy or in their own business. Public companies turned themselves into charlatans, not because of what they said, but because of what they did not say. When businesses went bad, nearly everyone at big American companies became quiet. For Wall St. the silence was a betrayal and one which won't be forgotten...
...fiscal year. (The dollar amount is 14% higher than the previous year, although the raw number of projects dropped 12.5%.) The thing about earmarks is that they make a politician popular at home, but unpopular on the national stage. While some politicians prefer to keep their overspending quiet, others are proud of their ability to "bring home the bacon." Still, it's safe to say that no one enjoys being skewered in a report with the tagline, "The Book Washington Doesn't Want You to Read...
...quiet poetry room, nestled next to the 24/7 Farnsworth Room on the top floor of Lamont, is the place to stumble on inspiration. Poetry books and recordings surround the few tables in the spacious reading room, which overlooks Tercentenary Theatre. The spire of Memorial Church stands tall against the blue sky. If you get bored of writing that paper, you can put on your reading glasses, lean back on a blue couch, and toss open an anthology of Wallace Stevens or the latest issue of the Kenyon Review. You can also go to the computer at the front...
...History Department Library is nestled next to the department itself on the second floor of Robinson Hall. It is a convenient place to escape to in between class--especially if you are a History concentrator who lives in the Quad. The library is always quiet, with no more than two or three people studying there at a time. The two-story library mimics the History concentration itself: piled with books and declaring it's legit--replete with book-ladders and a spiral staircase...
Everyone knows about this one. The café is a quiet, oft-neglected place to study* or engage in spirited intellectual conversation. Indeed, by day it resembles a veritable coffeehouse--the type you would find in 18th-century Enlightenment Europe, where Diderot and Montaigne would discuss the great ideas over a newspaper and cup of coffee. Yeah right. More like sweaty undergrads crammed together eating all the food. But whatever, it gets the job done. You're probably reading this there...