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Granara says intermediate Arabic classes are also experiencing an increase in numbers this semester—putting an additional strain on instructors who take on extra teaching loads and grade daily homework...
...Strain the resulting mixture, the wort, till the sweet liquid is separated from the remaining grains...
...games in public. Raiding Internet cafés, arresting their owners and seizing computers, police caused havoc around the country. Share And Share Alike The Bank of Japan jolted markets by agreeing to buy shares owned by the country's commercial banks, which hold $200 billion in stocks and strain under $355 billion in bad loans. This may be an attempt to halt deflation, but critics dismissed it as market manipulation. A Good Man Is Hard To Find The U.S. accounting industry is now in safe regulatory hands. Securities and Exchange Commission chairman Harvey Pitt named Scott Taub to oversee...
...objectives were set, the war fought and won, and to world acclaim America went home, avoiding what could have been an endless and bloody bog. "Finishing the job" would have meant a huge and perhaps unsuccessful search for Saddam, the breakup of the coalition of Arab states and strain among European allies. And the body-bag specter, so big back then, is conveniently forgotten...
...chair of the city council committee on housing, Galluccio has had hands-on experience dealing with the housing crunch in one of the cities under the greatest strain to maintain its affordability. He has been making a solid effort to combat the effects of gentrification. His approach—focusing city, state and federal resources to help create more units of affordable housing—is a creative strategy to a problem that can often be seen as a parochial concern. At the same time, his demand for accountability by local universities to help house their graduate student populations shows...