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...proctors, and a field of cots for intoxicated students. Student perception of the restrictions’ impact was generally mixed. Veronica M. Maldonado ’11, a Cabot House resident, said she found that the tailgating restrictions generally encouraged game-goers to drink faster and earlier. Their thirst satiated, many went on to leave the game before half-time, she said. “I think that it was definitely harder to have fun,” she said. Others said they found little negative impact. “I wasn’t even aware that there were...
...There is no doubt that the BSO had the power to fill Symphony Hall with its rich sounds, but their full potential was not reached. The concluding fugue closed on a clean note that left the listener’s thirst for an impassioned performance unquenched...
...thousand people - are reported almost daily. Millions of workers are being thrown out of their jobs, and economic indicators seem to presage more gloom, with electricity production for industry falling 4% in October, the first time it has declined in a decade. Even the country's seemingly insatiable thirst for oil to fuel its decades' long boom seems to be fading: China's national oil company said late in November that demand had declined "sharply" in recent months as industrial production slowed and was set to fall further...
...There is, of course, no romance in pain. An acknowledgement of the environmental movement’s losers is not about laying claim to a certain brand of sexy radicalism and it is not about venting a moralistic and paternalistic thirst for power. Neither is it about identifying an enemy for a rhetorical and performative assault. It is, instead, about being honest when it comes to what, exactly, people are going to have to sacrifice in order to build an environmentally responsible society...
...exploration and drilling in numerous developing countries from Ecuador to Angola, whose economies have surged along with the oil prices. "OPEC needs to see China maintain its rate of growth," Robert Johnston, energy director for the Eurasia Group in Washington said before the OPEC meeting. Without China's continued thirst for new oil, OPEC production cuts will have a limited impact...