Word: quiets
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...This event is making me nervous," says Katina Garrard, a quiet, pale woman watching the phone toss. Garrard was a legal ethics assistant at International Paper in Memphis, Tennessee until three months ago, when her company announced extensive layoffs. Memphis is a small city and none of the major corporations were hiring, so Garrard picked up for New York, where she thought the opportunities would be - "well, not plentiful, but at least they would exist." She attended a job fair earlier in the day, but it just depressed her. "There were lines and lines of people hoping...
Douglas’s contributions, though, have often been far from quiet. He’s hit 3 home runs, knocked in 14 runs, and was named to the Ivy League honor roll last week...
...remains to be seen how the case of Varun Gandhi will affect the BJP's chances. In any case, his supporters have not been quiet. On Saturday, after he turned himself in, they fought a pitched battle with the police and laid siege to the jail. Police responded by firing tear gas shells and charging the demonstrators with canes, injuring 25 people. His mother Maneka further stoked the anger when she claimed a Muslim officer had led the charge. In India's often overheated politics, the Nehru-Gandhi dynasty knows about playing with fire...
...weekend the Harvard softball team had been waiting for all season, but in the team’s Ivy League opener, something just wasn’t quite right.The Crimson’s (13-7, 1-1 Ivy) bats were quiet as the team split a twinbill with Columbia (9-15, 1-1) Saturday afternoon at the Baker Complex in New York, N.Y.Riding another outstanding performance from freshman hurler Rachel Brown, Harvard took the first game, 1-0, but the team’s lack of offensive production caught up to it in the second contest, which the Lions...
...nonbanker, what quickly becomes apparent is that the elaborate and formal process for banks' reporting suspicious characters makes it quite possible that a quiet, close-to-the-vest player like Madoff who is not part of any global crime syndicate could operate comfortably for a long time and have a happy bank as his unwitting accomplice. Perhaps in this new push to reform bank practices, that process is worth revisiting...