Word: squeak
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...watched his cousin Varun's inflammatory speeches on YouTube. I calculated the anti-incumbency factor and tracked the post-Mumbai-attacks backlash vote. Counting day - a holiday in India - was dramatic. By the afternoon of May 16, the alliance led by the Congress Party, which had been expected to squeak through to a majority, won decisively. But when it was all over, and the purple ink marks on my neighbors' fingers had started to fade, I couldn't help but feel a little disappointed. The answers to India's deepest problems seemed as far away as ever...
...crisis that began among and devastated the shadow banks. A few banking companies - Citigroup, UBS, JPMorgan Chase - did become deeply entwined in the shadow-banking system through their investment-banking arms. But banks, narrowly defined, weren't the big problem. So letting the banks, narrowly defined, squeak through reasonably unaltered might not be such a bad move...
...Harvard continued to play sloppy volleyball in the second set after falling behind, 15-11, early. Sacred Heart would capitalize on eight Crimson service errors to squeak out a 32-30 set victory to even the game...
...frank, I thought it was disgusting.Well, the insincerity got me so caught up that I missed my chance to go back in. Now some deacon or other went to the pulpit to blab about some calendar of evangelism and I let the door close with a squeak from it and a sigh from me.To think I’d have to wait even more! The announcements would go for a hundred years.I slunk back to the foyer.Why not get a little talking in while I was out here? “Ezekiel,” I called...
...indie rock’s current royalty, sprinkle in some musical legends, add a solid production team, and put them all together on one album. Unfortunately, N.A.S.A., the DJ duo behind the album, fails to live up to the extraordinary potential of their project.Sam “Squeak E. Clean” Spiegel and Ze “DJ Zegon” Gonzales named their collaboration N.A.S.A.—which stands for North America/South America—to reflect the combination of L.A.-based Spiegel’s specialty in hip-hop and the strong influence...