Word: slews
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...They’re very much pro-development, pro-institution,” Carlson said of the planning board members as he sat at last night’s meeting among a slew of neighbors, all sporting “I Crow for Riverside” stickers. “We felt that they were skewing our petition...
...Harvard field hockey team’s steady ascent since the construction of Jordan Field in 1999 may have suffered a slight lapse when the team failed to make NCAAs last year. But auspicious events in this year’s offseason—in contrast to the slew of injuries at last year’s outset—leave the Crimson equipped to surpass the achievements of the 2000 NCAA qualifying team...
...growing awareness of these risks, and not just becau se of the unpleasantness of cigarette smoke, that there has been a slew of legislation in the past few years banning smoking from the workplace. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration has classified secondhand smoke as a “potential occupational carcinogen” and has recommended that employers minimize occupational exposure in “all non-industrial work environments” by using “all available preventive measures.” While much attention and legislation has been targeted at employees in corporate offices and retail...
...breaks come not in the first two lines (as in, say, Little Richard's "Long Tall Sally") but in the fourth and sixth, giving the lyric room to build to a natural dramatic climax and the pianist room to paint his sound-portrait. Of course there's a slew of arpeggios (eight, to the all-time record 11 in "Great Balls") and the satyr-singer's invocation of the magic moment "when your hips start rockin'/ Honey, and your knees start knockin'." For a transcendent 1min, 58 secs., find the song on the Jerry Lee CD "25 All-Time Greatest...
This was, they said, the year the Emmys would be different. With "The Sopranos" out of the running (it aired no episodes during the Emmy calendar year, which runs from June to May), its usual slew of nominations were theoretically up for grabs. And while you'll be hearing a lot about the new blood at the Emmys - I'll get to that in a minute - the Emmys clearly set itself up to make plenty of conservative choices when it hands out the actual hardware in September. The more catholic nominations aside, "The West Wing" will probably be adding another...