Word: rawness
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County Mayo is a place of stubbornness and wild beauty. Raw Atlantic weather sweeps in across the tangle of estuaries and peninsulas that form Broadhaven Bay on Ireland's northwest coast, buffeting the yellow gorse bushes and pink rhododendrons that cling stoutly to the vast green bog stepped and striped black by centuries of cutting for household fuel. Like most of the Gaelic-speaking locals in Rossport, Willie Corduff has lived all his life here, cutting turf and seaweed, raising a few animals and getting by on frugality...
...understand the blind faith�you put in this ex--Vice President and ex-presidential candidate. You fell for his global-warming theory hook, line and sinker. What about the noted scientists who say the global-warming theory is nothing but a load of methane-producing raw sewage...
...This incident of two weeks ago struck this raw nerve once again. The “I am Harvard” campaign was an appropriate response that sent a powerful message: despite the fact that some may see them as less than equal members of the Harvard community, they do belong here as respected and valued members of the Harvard family. Similar campaigns are frequently used effectively when minorities are made to feel alienated and estranged, and raising the issue in such a manner is a good first step towards assuaging tensions...
...Lehman's next problem was to keep the Mexican plants running through May to produce the goods for Christmas but at the same time plan to shut them down. But workers got suspicious when the company stopped ordering raw materials. They had seen other U.S. companies close overnight without paying the legally mandated severance pay. Two days before the planned but unannounced shutdown, workers at one plant took the American manager hostage, locking her in the lunchroom until they were assured of severance. The next day Von Lehman sent a pile of cash in an armored truck. Amazingly, he notes...
...most credible CV is Zoellick,” Hausmann said. Hubbard, who earned his masters and Ph.D. in economics at Harvard and is currently dean of the Columbia School of Business, has also been mentioned as a contender for the post. ”If it’s raw politics, [his odds are] probably not very high,” said New York University Economics Department Chair Mark Gertler, a longtime friend and colleague of Hubbard. “If it’s competency, he has a very good chance.” Gertler added that Hubbard would...