Word: staggering
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...That, and timing. While the rest of the world's telecommunications companies stagger through what is being described as an industry depression?one marked by network overcapacity, crushing debt loads, stalling customer growth and desiccated stock prices?Mittal sits atop what is probably the world's last great growth market. India has more than a billion citizens, and most missed the late-1990s surge in mobile phone adoption. That means there's a near- virgin market of a billion (albeit mostly impoverished) people still waiting to join the wireless world. Now they are starting to sign up. In the last...
...generally start vaccinating high-risk patients in October, people over 65, those with long-term illnesses. In November, we move down to people over 50 and others at lower risk. It?s important that we stagger the vaccine distribution in order to match the supply to the need...
...nearing the end, past lunch at Wellesley and the miles of Heartbreak Hill and the interminable length of Brookline, those mile-marker posters take on what Amie calls “an almost totemic significance” for the walkers, who’ve now developed a slight stagger and are trying, less and less successfully, to drain the pooling blood from their hands. But mile 25 will be next, and then 26–and from there it’s only 0.2 miles to the tents and music and mylar “space blankets?...
...Which sort of makes you want to root for Keith - whose only victory came in the weight-loss challenge - to somehow stagger across that great finish line in the sand, just so he can blow his nose one last time . . . and give everybody the finger...
...your parents are interested in learning about the myriad of health resources offered by the College that you have never been told are available, send them off to the panel discussion at University Health Services (UHS). Unlike the welcomes you normally receive when you stagger into UHS (completely debilitated from the mono that was misdiagnosed as a bladder infection the month before), your parents will be warmly greeted by a room full of not nurse practitioners, not inattentive receptionists, but--gasp--doctors. (Yes, there are doctors at UHS.) Once they've settled in, your parents can learn about...