Word: similares
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...took the helm at HMC only last summer. The decline—the largest ever experienced at HMC, which manages Harvard’s endowment—was not unexpected, and administrators have been planning for a 30 percent decline since December. Many peer institutions have been anticipating similar losses...
...Lady Sings,” for example, tells the story of a drug dealer caught on the wrong corner who, after being beaten and sliced up with razor blades, simply refuses to die. “Sonny’s Missing” has a similar plotline, where a traitor to the Wu Gambino gets himself slowly and torturously whacked for a drug-related indiscretion. These accounts are admittedly brutal, but the combination of the evocative story-telling style and the somewhat fantastical content creates an enthralling scene.But Raekwon couldn’t have pulled off a 22-track album...
...suppliers, and in 1996 the company put in effect a code of conduct for them. Since 2004, Gap has been publishing information about the factories it uses and those it has stopped doing business with. Last year HP followed suit, becoming one of the first computer manufacturers to apply similar transparency to its global supply chain. Timberland now prints a detailed label for its shoes, noting on each pair the company's material and energy usage...
...poll said protecting the environment should be given priority over economic growth - and this comes in the midst of a recession and historic unemployment. And 78% of those polled said they would be willing to pay $2,000 more for a car that gets 35 m.p.g. than for a similar one that gets only 25 m.p.g. Of course, consumers are doing their own doing-well-by-doing-good calculation: a more expensive car that gets better gas mileage will save them money in the long run - and make them feel good about it in the process...
...wife, the Secretary of State, who was sitting in the front row - could tell Obama, it's best not to get too euphoric at the way a speech can make the numbers jump. After all, Clinton got virtually the identical result the day after he gave a similar speech on his own health-care plan in that same spot 16 years ago. It turned out to be the high-water mark for an initiative that spent the next year in a drawn-out death spiral and that proved to be a failure that helped cost the Democrats control of Congress...