Word: sheering
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...white elephant in the 1990s, but - not without some trials and tribulations - it has since become an essential part of London's economy, expanding the center of that amoeba-like city to the east. So do big bets on real estate ever pay off? Anyone who saw the sheer scale of decrepitude and decay of London's docklands in the early 1980s like I did will need no convincing that they sometimes do. In the ever turning cycle of economies, booms turn into busts, all right. But busts, too, come...
...sheer volume of applications masks some of the agency's recruiting problems. In a roundtable discussion with journalists last month, Panetta noted that less than 13% of his staff have foreign-language skills, and 22% are from minority communities. "I'd like to get to a point where every analyst and operations officer is trained in a foreign language," he said. Panetta also said he'd like to increase the number of minorities at the agency to 30%, "so that we resemble America." And he acknowledged the need for "better outreach for Muslims, Arabs, African Americans and Latinos." (Read...
...Czechs were already struggling with their presidency role before the government fell. This was partly due to it being a small country taking on the presidency for the first time, but also to the sheer demands of steering the E.U. through the economic crisis. Unflattering comparisons with last year's activist French presidency - with critics complaining that the Czechs are doing too little - don't help, and French President Nicolas Sarkozy has been curtly dismissive of his successors at the E.U.'s helm. (See pictures of Sarkozy...
...that the conservation of the Sargeant murals has been one of Center’s most exciting tasks under his tenure. “It was a very big project that gave us a chance to do significant work and to present the work we were doing and the sheer size of it all to the Boston public through webcam,” Lie says. “I’d say that is one of the most interesting projects we’ve done.” ACCESS HARVARD BOOKSThough the restoration process of the Sargeant murals...
Chaos is the sheer amount of nail polish remover, Axe body spray, and high-proof liquor that soaked the multi-tiered cardboard boats flung into the Charles last night...