Word: sheers
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Clair, Chrissis (6’0’’, 195) was a two-way starter for a 16-0 championship team and was also selected to play in the prestigious Pennsylvania East-West All Star Game. So far, Chrissis has impressed many upperclassmen with his dedication and sheer talent. “[Chrissis] was here this summer, worked hard, and can definitely play,” Pizzotti said. Chrissis will surely gain precious game experience this season, and may eventually mature into one of the most dangerous receivers in the Ivy League a couple of years down...
...November. In December, the committee will make the final decision on whether to proceed with any plan of action. But Grassi emphasized that the committee would be prudent in their decision making. “I would think the committee would not rush any recommendations through [due to] the sheer fact that he’s leaving in February,” Grassi said. “It’s very difficult to pass something for someone else to implement.” —Staff writer Michelle L. Quach can be reached at mquach@fas.harvard.edu...
...signed the bill into law, finally giving Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson the authority that he requested more than two weeks ago to buy up Wall Street's distressed mortgage-backed securities. But getting it done was not pretty or easy, and the clearest sign of that was in the sheer size of the legislation itself; Paulson's original request was barely three pages long, whereas the bill passed today runs well over 400 pages...
...needed any further evidence of a jaw-dropping double standard, we have to contemplate the sheer impossibility that someone who wrote a positive biography of McCain being chosen to moderate a debate." - the National Review's Jim Geraghty...
...force to be reckoned with and demonstrated that great journalism could help shape a national agenda. But he wasn't all high seriousness; if you spoke to those who worked with Oz during his time at Newsweek in the 1960s and 1970s, what came across above all was his sheer sense of the fun of it all, epitomized by an intolerance for cant and MEGO ("my eyes glaze over") prose. He constantly searched for great writing and great writers and displayed a puckish irreverence that recognized that readers needed to be entertained as well as informed...