Word: smelling
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...think the motion to table was a reasonable one in many ways, particularly if [Matory’s] motion was going to fail, as it clearly was,” he wrote. “However I thought the tabling was premature and didn’t smell good, coming before and therefore curtailing sufficient discussion, particularly from those who might have spoken in favor.” One-sixth of the Faculty is required to conduct an official vote. Yesterday’s attendance of 135 fell 10 short of that level. —Staff writer Johannah...
...sweet smell of economic recovery. Stock markets around the globe are resurgent, corporate spending looks set to rise, and optimists are even talking about a return to the golden years of noninflationary growth in the mid-1990s. But how strong is this upturn, really--and is it sustainable...
Next to it is a flight of stairs that leads up to the choral library. This dank space, with the pert smell of cement, has high, downward-sloping ceilings. Choir secretaries who serve as librarians of the literature. Metal shelves holding alphabetized black boxes full of music sheets lined the intricately latticed wooden wall that the choral library shares with Appleton Chapel...
...cover story on coastal Louisiana. But Congress might not fund the new Everglades projects. And one of the new Louisiana projects would actually destroy more valuable coastal wetlands. Environmentalists should know they'll never fix the Everglades or coastal Louisiana without fixing the corps. But even they enjoy the smell of pork--when it's theirs...
...From unpaid Web work to mostly unpaid Web work - it's an irony they might have made up on 30 Rock, if anyone were writing 30 Rock anymore. Instead, its creator, Tina Fey, was walking a picket line in midtown Manhattan. "These companies clearly smell that the Internet is where their future profits are coming from," she told TIME. "If you look at nbc breaking off with iTunes and trying to start their own thing and raise the price, it's because they know this is where the money's going...