Word: strength
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...strength of the three-part rollout is the advantages of one rubbing off on the others. In an example provided by the Treasury for the FDIC part of the plan, an investor could put up $6, get matching investments from the Treasury for another $6, then obtain loan financing of $72 from the FDIC. This would allow the investor to purchase a security with an $84 auction price (and a face value of $100). Again, Geithner did not provide details on the terms of those loans...
Kudos to Kate Mark Harris' agreeable article on Kate Winslet ignores one of her defining cinematic achievements: her first film, Peter Jackson's classic New Zealand epic Heavenly Creatures [March 2]. The strength of this performance, and the manner in which she brought to life the notorious Christchurch schoolgirl Juliet Hulme, was deeply striking. One can only gape in awe at the growth in ability she has shown from such an auspicious beginning. Victor Ochoa, Danville...
...would race in NCAAs after undergoing leg surgery last year.“I think we both did well,” Mills said. “For me, I learned some things that I really need to work on. I didn’t have quite the leg strength that I wanted to. Of course I would have loved to have gone faster, but it was a very solid, very good meet for me.”On Friday, Clarke took the day to rest while Mills competed in the 200-yard freestyle event. Out of a field...
...hope the group will offer suggestions for ways that creativity should be taught or encouraged in elementary and secondary schools, as well as in universities.“The arts are not in danger… but the arts don’t have the educational importance that the strength in society would suggest they might,” Croft says. “Creativity is a fundamental characteristic of what it means to be a human being…if educational spaces think that this is a frill, that that is something that is not essential to the enterprise...
...reverberations of electric blares.In an attempt to reshape the genre of noise pop, then, “Wavvves” has removed the essential infectious melodies and beats. In the best of the genre, music emerges from the noise and occasional harmonies clarify overwhelming dissonances. Carefree chaos and defiant strength become nonsensical, not mysterious or intriguing, when nothing stands in contrast. Similar no-fi bands like No Age and Abe Vigoda express in their work an implicit understanding that powerful beats and electronic tones work best in the support of catchy tunes. “Wavvves” only demonstrates...