Word: sumness
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...community. Widespread cutbacks in spending by families mean lower demand for businesses and lower tax revenues for the government. This belt-tightening means fewer car sales and thus fewer jobs for car-part makers. It means less government spending on infrastructure and other public services, including economic development. The sum effect is less available work for job seekers - a perfect vicious circle. For a well-educated job loser like Whitfield, it can mean a permanent drop in earning power and standard of living - a reversal of the American Dream...
...Sure, al-Qaeda continues to issue vituperative missives by video from its hideouts, many of them directed at the likes of Iran and Hamas. But Hamas spokesman Osama Hamdan seemed to sum up al-Qaeda's plight two years ago, when responding to a particularly rabid attack from bin Laden's No. 2. Ayman al-Zawahiri had accused Hamas of "joining the surrender train" by participating in elections and agreeing to form a unity government with Fatah. Hamas, sneered Hamdan in response, had no need of advice from a "fugitive in the Afghan mountains" and did not accept criticism from...
...campaign narrowly covered expenses with the help of an initial sum of $3,000 from the UC surplus budget and $4,000 in miscellaneous donations solicited before the summer began, but failed to meet the ambitious goals laid...
...During her decade at GMA, Sawyer famously snagged highly desirable guests because she was Diane freakin' Sawyer. Celebrities were warm to her because she was married to director Mike Nichols, the world's most genial man. Hard-news guests appreciated her résumé of serious journalism, which includes stints on 60 Minutes and Primetime Live. Plus, she's a legendarily hard worker. (A request for an interview - she must have gotten hundreds - was met with a polite personal e-mail: "I'm not talking right now but will remember you called.") As a booker at a rival show...
Following in the footsteps of HUDS, Gen Ed also set up its own Twitter account! We might add that it has nine followers, which is probably the sum total of everyone at Harvard who knows what the hell is going on with the program...