Word: swathes
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...feelings at Harvard.” “Iconography of Harvard is an aspect of his own childhood—a part of his emotional life,” Wronoski says. “Harvard is one of those lampposts in his memory that illuminates a large swath of his experience...It’s like an ongoing travel log. He is reporting not from places, necessarily, but from inside of him.” While Hannah has a personal emotional connection to all of his work, he says that no one experience has more importance than another. When...
...Traditional liberalism died there because Americans - who had once associated it with order - came to associate it with disorder instead. For a vast swath of the white working class, racial freedom came to mean riots and crime; sexual freedom came to mean divorce; and cultural freedom came to mean disrespect for family, church and flag. Richard Nixon and later Reagan won the presidency by promising a new order: not economic but cultural, not the taming of the market but the taming of the street...
...Cambridge Public Schools will also feel the pinch of the state budget cuts, but the precise ramifications have not yet fully materialized. Among the cuts were reductions to a swath of early and special education programs...
...places. With consumers curbing discretionary spending, it makes sense to home in on recession-proof industries. "Health care has been the bulwark of the economy," says John Challenger, CEO of the global outplacement firm Challenger, Gray and Christmas. With proper medical attention a bedrock need, Challenger says a "wide swath of companies" have a need for physical therapists, nurses, medical records technologists and digital imaging specialists. Healthcare is also the industry showing the most growth in unionization, says Gordon Pavey, director of collective bargaining...
...electoral-vote rich Florida, ground zero is the unpredictable Interstate-4 corridor which stretches across the state's mid-section from Daytona Beach on the east coast through Walt Disney World to Tampa Bay in the west. Along this swath, Tampa Bay is known as the state's bellwether: since 1980, as Tampa Bay votes, so has the state, according to political analyst Susan MacManus, distinguished professor at University of South Florida...