Word: swallowable
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...When you're accepting a job that pays in the low 30 [thousands], your friends are signing with consulting companies, and they will get signing bonuses that are more than your first five paychecks," said Josh Gibson, a PMI finalist. "You have to swallow hard, and this makes that swallowing go down easier...
...fact, he wanted to swallow up Russia, Poland, Ukraine and the Baltic countries to augment lebensraum: Germany's vital space. But then why did he launch his destructive war against London? Why did he declare war against the U.S.? Solely to please his Japanese ally? Why did he mandate a policy of cruelty in the Soviet territories occupied by his armies, when certain segments of the population there were ready to greet them with flowers? And finally, why did he invest so much energy in his hatred of Jews? Why did the night trains that took them to their death...
...proposed deal, but they're under a lot of pressure to make a deal," says TIME London bureau chief Barry Hillenbrand. "So they'll be hoping to get concessions in the last rounds of talks to make it easier to sell their constituencies the parts that are hard to swallow." The real test, though, will be selling the compromise to communities that have been at war for three decades: Whatever agreement the politicians reach by Thursday will be put to the vote in a referendum late...
...only thing left at that point was to say "uncle" and swallow hard...
...reacting with the ores to form a toxic soup that rises steadily, year after year, like water in a vast bathtub. It's the Berkeley Pit, and it's a man-made wonder of horrific proportions--an oval lake of acidic mining residues so deep that it could swallow an 80-story skyscraper...