Word: stern
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...fellow John Kelly, history of art and architecture professor Joseph Koerner, education professor Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot, visual and environmental studies professor Helen Mirra, art curator Helen Molesworth, African-American music professor Ingrid Monson, Graduate School of Design Dean Mohsen Mostafavi, landscape architecture professor Hashim Sarkis, dramatic arts lecturer Marcus Stern, and Humanities dean Diana Sorensen...
...Polish forces in Iraq, called for the Coalition troops in Diwaniyah to rally together in their time of grief. "Please, let me ask you to get even more united, even more strong, so that this sacrifice is not a waste," he said to a crowd of about 75 stern-faced soldiers packed into a tiny chapel heavy with the weight of the day. "We need to proceed in the memory of our great hero," he said...
...international business operations. The league derives 10% of its revenue from foreign markets, and basketball is already the third most-played team sport in Britain, and the second for under-18s. "I've been around long enough to see when the stars are coming into alignment," the NBA's Stern said. "We're not there yet, but I'm beginning to sense...
...long succeeded in imposing quotas on sugar imported from the Caribbean, though it is one of the islands' crops of comparative advantage. European governments, with the French at the fore, have always sought protection for their farmers as a way of preserving the rural environment and village life. Nick Stern, chief economist of the World Bank, recently estimated that total agricultural subsidies in the rich world were worth $300 billion a year--about equal to all the economies in sub-Saharan Africa...
...textile industry, ably defended over the years by Senators Jesse Helms and Ernest Hollings of the Carolinas, has long been one of the most aggressive lobbies for tariffs and quotas. Such protection hurts more people than it helps. Stern calls agricultural subsidies "a rip-off" for citizens of rich countries, who have to pay higher prices and taxes than they would in a world where goods were traded freely. But those hurt by free trade--farmers and textile workers who might have to shift jobs--are always easier for politicians to identify and support than the much larger number...