Word: thirteens
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Thirteen professors assailed Summers at yesterday’s full meeting of the Faculty, including two who suggested it was time for Summers to resign...
Because the Time Warner board has thirteen directors elected through a plurality voting system, Icahn would have to identify eight current directors whom he wants his allies to vote against. When asked if Clark was one of his targets, Icahn initially said that all the directors were at fault for Time Warner’s performance, but later backtracked and pointed out that Clark was not a member of the board that approved what he deemed the disastrous merger between Time Warner and America Online...
...came within one rebound of a double-double. Her nine rebounds led the team, and she added two blocks for good measure. Colgate fought hard to come back in the second half, drawing within 18 points at 65-37 after two three-pointers by senior Meghan Curtin with thirteen minutes left. Harvard followed by scoring the next seven points, however. The 80 points that Harvard scored?as well as the 20 points that it allowed in the first half?are both season bests. Senior Laura Robinson scored ten points on 5-of-8 shooting, and added five assists...
...while. It’s not that big of a deal, but it grates on your nerves when you have to fight these types of semantic battles on a daily basis. It’s especially tiresome when the same grandma refers to the girl that your thirteen-year-old brother has been seeing for two weeks—one movie date, chaperoned by parents, no kissing—as his girlfriend. She doesn’t include quotes there, either...
...Japanese government announced that 20 condos and one hotel in and around Tokyo designed by architect Hidetsugu Aneha did not meet Japan's strict earthquake-resistance standards. Thirteen buildings, it said, were so poorly protected that they were unlikely to withstand a medium-strength temblor. Most shocking of all: Aneha's work failed to meet codes not due to error or incompetence, but because he knowingly skimped on materials like reinforced steel and then fabricated safety data to indicate projects were in compliance. Aneha, who admitted in a press conference to faking the data, said he had buckled under pressure...