Word: unveil
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...some universities' special Match Day traditions: "On the third Thursday in March, medical schools across the country held gatherings to unveil the computer's results. Some schools waited for the designated hour, then unleashed the students to retrieve the envelopes with their results and braced for a stampede. Others, including Vanderbilt University, called students at random to the front of a lecture hall. On the way, each students dropped a dollar bill into a fishbowl as compensation for the suffering that the last person was to endure while waiting. One by one, they received and opened their envelopes, leaned into...
...business was usually carried on the back of Jobs. He was the front man, the face of Apple, its every innovation incarnate. Even a trifle like the new Shuffle, with its clever way of "speaking" the names of tracks and playlists to ease navigation, would have been his to unveil. Not this morning. (See pictures of Jobs...
...power grids. Another 25% will go to reconstruct entire towns in Sichuan province that were devastated by last year's earthquake. These are "shovel-ready" infrastructure projects, and financial markets rallied on March 4 partly due to expectations - unfounded, as it turned out - that Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao would unveil a second round of stimulus measures on March 5 during the opening of China's annual National Party Congress in Beijing. (See pictures from the Beijing Olympics...
...likely that investors will be reluctant to bet on nascent signs of improving credit so long as the housing market remains in turmoil. On Wednesday morning President Obama and Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner will appear at a high school in Arizona to unveil their new plan to stem the tide of housing foreclosures. The financial community's response to that plan will likely be writ large in the stock market averages by late morning...
...conferences and weddings. "We now need to take the next step", said Lord Robin Eames, the former Anglican Primate of All Ireland, and co-chair with former priest Denis Bradley of the independent Consultative Group on the Past (CGP). After 18 months of deliberations, the CGP was ready to unveil a range of proposals designed to acknowledge, and where possible alleviate the suffering of all parties in the conflict. (See pictures of the British army withdrawing from Ulster...