Word: smacks
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...special representative for the Multilateral Assistance Initiative, an international program that has obtained pledges of $3.5 billion in development aid for the Philippines from a score of countries and institutions. He explains, "She seems totally dedicated to democratic government -- to the point where she will not do things that smack of authoritarianism...
With 10 minutes to play, freshman Amy Snow lifted a high shot that was headed for the goal. Reilly leapt and was able to bat the ball over the net. Two minutes later, Jennifer Smith launched a shot that Reilly had to smack away from the goal area...
Even sobersided economists accept that there is something odd about the Italian experience. A recent scholarly study, The Italian Miracle, does smack of the supernatural compared with the German miracle, which was 99% hard work. But there are rational elements. Italians are great savers, squirreling away 15% of income, much of it in government securities. Fully 97% of the national debt is funded domestically, and nearly two-thirds of the negotiable state debt is in the hands of individuals. This mode of saving doubtless owes something to exchange controls and preferential tax treatment, but Italians have been willing buyers...
Keep in mind that Bok is president of Harvard University, not Harvard College. Even though his office is smack-dab in the middle of the Yard, Bok runs the entire mammoth institution, which includes a $4 billion endowment and eight graduate schools...
North of Yuma, east of the Colorado River and smack in the middle of nowhere, Quartzsite is not an official town. Never incorporated, possessing no mayor, no schools, no stoplight, no town water or sewer system, no zoning rules or local police, the "gem of the desert" is home year round to maybe a thousand people...