Word: roughness
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...five fingers. In the Philippines we only had mild behavior problems, and they're easily addressed because of the culture, the family and value given to adults." In addition, she taught only two periods a day in the Philippines, and she now has to teach six. "It's been rough," she says. "The only two things helping me are my prayers and the support that the principal and teachers give...
Aguilar's principal, Joyce Hughes, says that the transition has been rough but typical. "With any new teacher," says Hughes, "whether you're from the Philippines or whatever, the kids will try you. She's really done a fantastic...
...life at this time that we cannot wait until New Orleans is built back up and known as the city everyone wants to live and be. Just the thought of the days of the hurricane will not stop me and my family from staying away. It just was rough with having only two cars to drive from New Orleans with no gas in either one of them, on empty, but the Lord blessed us where we made it from there to Baton Rouge with no gas and with 10 people and a dog in a Blazer, and 7 people...
...Dyke is one of the last of the wildcatters, independent operators who roam jungles and deserts looking for black gold. He has become the man to see if you need millions of barrels of crude oil a day to fuel a booming industrializing country, which is why the rough-hewn geologist found himself in Bermuda two years ago, hammering out a deal with executives of the Chinese national oil company Sinopec. "They were under pressure," Van Dyke recalls, and they were ready to make a deal. That meeting set in motion a year of negotiations, culminating in a $40 million...
...with Brown University taking home top honors with a tally of 206.“I thought it was good on the whole, especially with what happened to us,” senior Vincent Porter said. “To get third was a good feeling after suffering some rough breaks.”The strong Sunday effort saved Harvard from a middle-of-the-road finish after a frustrating Saturday. Manning the A-division, juniors Clay Johnson and Kristen Lynch finished dead last out of eighteen competing teams in two of the first eight races. They also ended...