Word: safe
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Harvard's myriad bureaucracies are nothing if not efficient. It is safe to assume that the decisions made by Epps, Law, the faculty and the i.d. office were a model of efficiency, executed completely according to plan. The only trouble seems to have been that they didn't tell each other what would be going on, let alone ask students how these plans would affect them...
...safe with any of the above and shrimp in hot black bean sauce ($8.95). The latter is a very generous portion (a dozen large-to-middling size shrimps) in a sauce made complex by the addition of fermented black beans. The beans are the basis of a rich sauce of their own in Cantonese cookery. Here their aromas blend with the Szechwan bouquet in a way that I find very novel. Perhaps this is the "continental cuisine" of Taipei, where Chef Hou won his epaulettes at a major hotel...
Although no Ivy League school will reveal how much it spends on its football team, it's safe to say that supporting a college football program such as Columbia's costs more than half-a-million dollars a year...
...childhood in warm, elegiac terms that completely invert the cramped, maddening domesticity endured by Alexander Portnoy: "Our lower- middle-class neighborhood of houses and shops -- a few square miles of tree-lined streets at the corner of the city bordering on residential Hillside and semi-industrial Irvington -- was as safe and peaceful a haven for me as his rural community would have been for an Indiana farm...
...capital city of Dhaka, where the President's residence was knee-deep in water, streets had been transformed into canals. Boatmen were charging whatever the market would bear to move people to safe ground, but some clung to the roofs of their flooded huts to ward off looters. Ricksha Driver Mohammed Nasser, 18, boasted that he was making $5 a day carrying passengers through flooded streets. He will need the money: the shanty he shared with his mother and sister was washed away...