Word: smith
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...haven't given up yet," she says, but "all options are open." Inside the cavernous hall hosting the fair, recruiters - from big banks to software makers - offer candy to graduates willing to chat. Getting them to stay in Ireland may soon require a little more persuasion. - by Adam Smith...
...bank has gone to court because Mr. Jones did not fulfill his requirements on his mortgage, and he's in default so they go ahead with foreclosure proceedings. Then we go out and find out that it isn't Mr. Jones who's living there. It's Mrs. Smith, who lives there with her three children. Has Mrs. Smith been served with anything...
...Among top military and diplomatic strategists, the failure of the current approach in Afghanistan has been accepted as inevitable. Brigadier Mark Carleton-Smith, Britain's top military officer in Afghanistan, has said, "We're not going to win this war." At best, he says, international troops can hope to reduce it "to a manageable level of insurgency that's not a strategic threat." U.K. ambassador Sir Sherard Cowper-Coles, in a leaked diplomatic briefing with the French deputy ambassador, is said to have described the current situation in Afghanistan as "bad; the security situation is getting worse - so is corruption...
People like Maureen O'Hare, whom I found shopping for shoes in the Sedalia Wal-Mart with her daughter Ashley Smith and bright-eyed 2-year-old grandson Traven. Sedalia is an old railroad town of about 20,000 people - a population essentially unchanged in the past 90 years. George W. Bush won two-thirds of the vote in Sedalia and surrounding Pettis County in 2004, and one of those votes belonged to O'Hare. But after years of voting for Republicans, she told me, she feels compelled to change horses. Of Obama, she said simply, "I think he would...
...Smith said that new fundraising would be geared toward increasing the Faculty’s unrestricted funds to allow funding for recent initiatives like financial aid expansions and funding for graduate students...