Word: shedding
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...should be prosecuted," says Ramapati Kumar of Greenpeace India. "We will oppose the Clemenceau's entry to the last." The ship is banned from Indian waters until at least Feb. 13. The fate of the Clemenceau - doomed, perhaps, to sail the seas perpetually like a modern Flying Dutchman - has shed a harsh light on the practice of decommissioning ships. Older vessels, in particular, present a devil's brew of toxins, from asbestos insulation of engines and decks to pcbs, acids and heavy metals in paints and coatings. The problem concerns more than just military craft. The 1960s and '70s were...
...dust off your resume. And when you do, remember that the game has changed. The old deal was that your company paid you a decent, but not great, wage through thick and thin. You didn?t get rich; you didn?t get fired. But now even profitable companies shed long-time employees at the first whiff of trouble. ?Think like a free agent,? says John Challenger, who runs outplacement firm Challenger Grey & Christmas. ?You need to be able to dump your company before it dumps you.? When companies are hungry for talent, as many are today, you can drive your...
...juicer, and neither are my friends, so squeezing lemonade from all of our lemons is out of the question. Instead, we are stuck with an unsavory and bitter, bitter fruit that costs more than the median American income. I call on all Harvard students to shed their guilty procrastinating and failed attempts at studying, and rally in front of Mass Hall against the administration. We must fight—as usual—with gusto to battle administrators’ malicious tactics. The torturous schedule must be changed. We will be frazzled and disheveled and miserable with only four days...
...that claims of gender discrimination in academia appear overstated.Much has been made of those hypotheses and their relative merits in the year since Summers and his critics brought them into national view. And the notes, which closely mirror the transcript of his remarks that was released a month later, shed scant new light on the president’s thinking.But perhaps the most significant line of the speech did not appear anywhere in the president’s notes and went largely unnoticed in the ensuing uproar. It was his very first sentence.Summers began with a nod to Richard Freeman...
...scope of the consent is governed by what the officer said he’s looking for,” he said. “So, if an officer asked, ‘you wouldn’t mind us looking for elephants in your shed?’ ‘Well, officer, go ahead’ but that’s not consent to search his tool box. Here, the cop says, ‘I’m looking for a stereo’ and he doesn’t look like he’s searching...