Word: usher
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...There's an element of humor in this," Epps quipped. "He ushers students into one of the clubs and I usher them...
...jolt fearing further interest rate increases by the Fed. For investors, the skinny remains: don't panic. Good news is still good news, and the economy, after all, is strong. But as snow fell Monday on downtown New York, the traders in Wall Street s vaulted warrens continued to usher March out like a polar bear...
...South America and who can't stop talking about how much the actress playing the matrimonial lawyer resembles his Cousin Edna, the one who ran off with the sheet-rock installer. In this situation, you don't need a citation from Oliver Wendell Holmes. You only need an usher. The usher can explain to Torture Voice that he has every right to carry on a conversation, but he'll have to do it out on the sidewalk...
...what does last week's ruling mean for the other states? Conservatives fear that it will usher in an era of "moral anarchy," in the words of Robert Knight, director of cultural studies for the Family Research Council in Washington. "It will lead to calls for other relationships to be recognized, because if feelings are the key to recognizing a marriage, there's no logical reason why three or four people who say 'We sincerely love each other' should be denied this status," he explains. Gay-rights groups also expect wide repercussions, though of a very different kind. "This decision...
...been stressed by the biologist George Williams, whose 1966 book Adaptation and Natural Selection laid its theoretical foundations. Rather like the World War II physicists who were horrified by the weapon they had invented, Williams blanches at the view of human nature and of natural selection that he helped usher in. "Mother Nature," he says, "is a wicked old witch...