Word: shells
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...minimum when it relates to this construction, however, as evidenced by the fact that the machinery on site uses high-sulfur fuel, which has been linked to a host of serious health problems. Harvard refused to replace the high-sulfur fuel with low-sulfur fuel—why shell out an additional $200/day when high-sulfur fuel already “meets” regulations? It’s time for Harvard to do a little more than meet the minimum standards, since being so miserly means possible health hazards and barriers to studying for its students and employees.Finally...
...when most of Wall Street is winding down, Walter Zimmermann begins a high-stakes, high-wire act conducted live before a paying audience. About 200 institutional investors?including airlines and oil companies?shell out up to $3,000 a month to catch his daily webcast on the volatile energy markets, a performance that can move hundreds of millions of dollars. "I'm not paid to be wrong?I can tell you that," Zimmermann says. But as he clicks through dozens of screens and graphics on three computers, he's the picture of focused calm. Zimmermann, 54, watched most...
...himself to teaching and research, but as a lecturer at Harvard, he has a superb platform to begin explaining his ideas about what is happening in journalism and to uphold values that he believes in and that we support.” —Staff writer Alexander C. Shell can be reached at acshell@fas.harvard.edu...
...discontent with his administration’s war policy, the President responded only by regurgitating stale party lines during press conferences and minor speeches. Bush, in short, has missed every major opportunity to reclaim prominence in the heated debate over the Iraq War. He only crawled out of his shell within the past month, delivering four major policy addresses prior to his nationally televised speech. By then, however, his credibility had already withered into a diminutive skeleton of what had been a formidable force at the time of his reelection. A leader who starts to fight only when his approval...
SOME OF CATHY DEALE'S BEST-SELLING products have nautical and shell motifs, even though many of the Zulu women who embroider them have never even seen the ocean, let alone a sailboat. But they don't seem to mind. Thanks to Deale's importing business, the craftswomen near Durban, South Africa, are living much better than ever before...