Word: tappingly
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...people would question whether former University President Lawrence H. Summers has the brains to be President-elect Barack Obama’s Treasury Secretary—after all, he held the same position in the Clinton administration.But when post-election rumors that Obama would tap Summers for the post began to fly, it reopened wounds dating back to his turbulent tenure as Harvard’s president.The National Organization for Women and other women’s groups have issued sharply-worded statements opposing Summers’ potential appointment that may have succeeded in knocking him off Obama?...
...chorus numbers and vaudeville throwbacks, political drinking songs ("Merry Christmas, Maggie Thatcher") and those with simple, John Lennon-like lyricism. But all of them seem utterly fresh and inseparable from the story they enliven and enhance. The show's centerpiece, of course, is Billy's dancing, which ranges from tap numbers to classical ballet, as well as a striking Act I finale in which Billy, his chance at an audition thwarted, erupts into an emotional, free-form paroxysm of frustration and anger. But Peter Darling's choreography is perhaps most impressive in the intricately staged group numbers like "Solidarity," which...
...confirmed only a few of its investments. Moreover, taking government funds will force the firms to restrict executive compensation as well as make it tougher for them to increase their stock dividend. So some banks may pass. On Wednesday, officials of the Bank of Oklahoma said they would not tap the TARP program, adding that the bank was well capitalized...
...team concept also extends to the field. CforC, which is building a core staff of 20, can tap into a network of experts it has assembled, who number 30 so far and range from ex-officers and diplomats to former business executives and NGO operatives. For each project, it convenes small teams of staff and associates, mixing and matching skill sets to meet the client's needs. For example, Slim says, a team may have "a human-rights person, an environmentalist and a private-equity expert--now that's pretty wacky...
Water: Clean water out of the tap is one of the great innovations of the modern age - and something that billions of people in the rest of the world lack. But if you live on the right kind of land, you can dig your own well - as more than 17 million Americans currently do. The process is simple - dig a hole into the ground and get a pump that will pull out the water. Generally the deeper you drill, the better the water - but the cost can range from $3,000 to $15,000 depending on how far down...