Word: uproots
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Ellwood holds deep ties to the Quad—currently home to three upperclass Houses that could be uprooted in the Allston expansion. He was a member of Currier House while he was a student at the College, and his daughter is a member of Pforzheimer House’s Class of 2006. But the task force’s report could uproot the Quad houses from Garden Street...
Slavitt has chutzpah, and he surely needs it. The political task at hand is not a simple one—Slavitt is looking to uproot a six-term incumbent who is also a Cambridge city councillor. It doesn’t help that he’s running as a Republican, in a town that leans so far to the left some have dubbed it “The People’s Republic...
...life apart, say the experts, is absolutely imperative. The decision to move can't be motivated solely by a need to see your children more often. Identifying the right community should be a major consideration before you uproot everything, says Matti Gershenfeld, secretary-general of the International Council of Psychologists. "You have to move to a place where you could be happy even if your child gets transferred to another city--a place you can afford, where you like the weather, where it's easy for old friends to visit, where you can find things to do and new friends...
...abroad, I do it not in spite of, or as a matter aside from, but precisely because of my religion, Islam. Despite popular perception, Islam preaches peace. As prophet Muhammed said, “Never kill a woman, a weak infant, or a debilitated old person; nor burn palms, uproot trees, or pull down houses.” Thus, before even the Western theory of just war was born, Prophet Muhammed prohibited the killing of innocent civilians and even plants...
Given eBay's sensational ascent, it's hard to fathom the considerable prodding it took to get Whitman on board. Then at toymaker Hasbro, she hesitated to uproot her family from Boston to join "this obscure Internet company" out in California. And even after she signed on, there were difficult times. The falling Internet sector dragged the company's stock down to a low of $30 a share. And in May a federal jury ruled that eBay should pay $35 million in damages for infringing on the patent of a Virginia firm that developed fixed-pricing technology; eBay has challenged...