Word: smoothed
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...wasn't exactly a smooth ride, but survive he did. Along the way, Strong, 56, whose firm, Solar Design Associates, is based in Harvard, Mass., turned himself into one of the nation's foremost experts on solar buildings. His initial breakthrough came in 1980, when he found a manufacturer to build his "integrated" solar roof. The first of its kind, it provided an alternative to the costlier--and clunkier--solar panels that are just slapped onto rooftops...
...with a call-and-response between two guitars, reminiscent of wide-eyed ’60s pop, but the Arctic Monkeys are anything but innocent. Their three-minute tirade against a trashy girl who hides her flaws behind a façade of respectability is brilliantly hateful, with a smooth melody and tight lyrics (“You used to get it in your fishnets / Now you only get it in your nightdress”). The hardness of the opening songs is echoed in the later songs, but the storm never rages as intensely again. The sound becomes a little...
...Regional Cooperation, a political and economic forum for eight South Asian countries, was "connectivity." Despite the fact that this talkfest slogan was so obvious as to be meaningless, regional leaders took it seriously enough. During the meeting they agreed to work toward a South Asian community that has a "smooth flow of goods, services, peoples, technologies, knowledge, capital, culture and ideas ..." Yet even as the agreement was being drafted, bureaucrat underlings back home were contemplating new ways to separate themselves from neighboring countries-not through trade barriers or diplomatic hurdles, but with actual, physical walls...
...Last year at the Compton Cup, the Tigers won the trophy for the first time in five years—the first time in the series’ history that they had done so on the Charles River. This weekend, however, on a day of smooth waters and light winds on Lake Carnegie, N.J., Harvard won all four races of the morning in a clean sweep over the Princeton and MIT boats...
...opened with the simplest of questions: Did he think he would win? To a smooth politician, it would have been a welcome softball. But nothing came easy to Russia's tortured President. "I'm a President," he sputtered with obvious disdain, "not a fortune teller." And off he stormed...