Word: sways
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...anyone who's ever had a pet knows, the joke's on us: animals - with the exception of all poodles and the occasional sissy hamster - are not absolutely controllable. We do maintain sway over cats and dogs, primarily because their social hierarchy allows us humans to neatly insert ourselves in the dominant position. But while domesticated pets have had much of the wild bred out of them, they are still, at heart, animals - something your dog or cat is happy to remind you of, with a sharp nip or bark, should you ever forget, and try, say, to dress little...
...tiny balsa raft, from Peru to an island near Tahiti in an attempt to prove his unorthodox theory that the Polynesian Islands could have been settled by prehistoric Peruvians, not by Southeast Asians; of brain cancer; on the Italian Riviera. The so-called Kon-Tiki man did not sway scholars, who dismissed him as an amateur, but his 4,300-mile, 101-day journey across the Pacific riveted the public, spawning his internationally best-selling memoir, Kon-Tiki, and an Oscar-winning documentary on the voyage...
Today he is Izzadin Masri, the 23-year-old son of a prosperous restaurant owner, who killed himself and 15 people at a Jerusalem Sbarro pizzeria last August. He is Daoud Abu Sway, 47, a father of eight not known to be unusually political or religious, who detonated a bomb outside a luxury hotel in Jerusalem in December, killing himself and injuring two others. He is even a she. Ayat Akhras, 18, was a straight-A student, just months away from graduation and then marriage. On March 29, she killed herself and two others outside a Jerusalem supermarket. Volunteers such...
...said that despite the sway Highfields has as a large investor, they could do nothing to prevent the purchase because only mergers, not acquisitions, require shareholder approvals...
Because a spot on the coach’s list has more sway than even legacy or racial minority, and because athletes’ GPA’s tend to dip a bit lower than the average student’s, Harvard is now poised to change its admission policies regarding athletes. But the answer is hardly to cut them out of the college. Rather, we should examine the not-so-startling results of Shulman and Bowen’s research and ask ourselves why we place so much emphasis on academic performance above all other types of accomplishment...