Word: shedding
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...thousands facing joblessness, lingering economic problems mean deepening financial difficulties. In September, the last month data were available, the economy nationwide shed 159,000 jobs; thousands of additional layoffs have been announced by major employers around the country since then. Tracey says many of her clients seeking employment are already getting desperate. One lost a home recently and is living with relatives. Some clients are scrambling to accept even temp positions that pay far less than the jobs they held before the layoffs. Others reveal a growing sense of fear simply in their voices when talking on the phone with...
...Unlike earlier Stone films “JFK” and “Nixon,” “W.” fails to provoke debate or shed new light on an already over-exposed political figure. Instead, Stone settles for a hastily-constructed biopic of George W. Bush that unskillfully combines a sometimes comedic tone with serious subject matter. “W.” is neither provocative nor riveting; it’s simply dull and conventional...
...shoulder, locking me in a grip so tight it was if he would never let go. I felt him shaking, his chest lurching against me. Then I felt a warm wetness on my neck and heard his sobs, his jagged gasps. The man I had never seen shed a tear, my Rock of Gibraltar, was crying in my arms...
...drug, alcohol, and other substance abuse, which represent an ongoing effort to update and clarify student-focused protocols. The review began last term after the school district began to publish its policies online. Committee member Patricia M. Nolan ’80 explained that the review process has helped shed light on outdated aspects of the regulations. “When you clean it up you realize there is some messiness,” she said. But even with revisions that have come about thus far, Nolan said she thought the policies needed to be more supportive of students...
...started out trying to shed a little light—and poke a little fun—at these literary societies’ insistence on secrecy. But behind the obscurity, Fugitive Poetics was just trying to keep their group small and confidential in the interest of their art. ADPhi, on the other hand, was hiding only a national fraternity behind a wall that even a potential member couldn’t penetrate...