Word: ushered
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...carnage in Littleton, Colorado - 12 classmates and a teacher before the killers offed themselves - and the ease with which the teenagers acquired their weapons (two sawed-off shotguns, a 9-mm semiautomatic carbine and a TEC-9 handgun) seemed to usher in a new era of, well if not gun control, then at least gun awareness. (See pictures of Columbine 10 years later...
...debt; kill or sell low-performing brands; and reduce the number of models for sale and the number of dealers selling them. Should GM, the United Auto Workers (UAW) and the company's bondholders fail to figure out how to execute those tasks by June 1, the government will usher GM into bankruptcy, which could lead to its breakup into "good" and "bad" subsidiaries. The bad would be sold for parts...
Does the financial collapse mean that a hushed and chastened mood will come upon the art world? Don't count on it. Remember how 9/11 was supposed to usher in the end of irony? That didn't happen either. All the same, is it too much to hope that a stricken world might have more time for art that's less declamatory and cocksure? If it does, this will be a very good moment for William Kentridge, anguished moralist...
...this spirit, Congress is now poised to send me bipartisan legislation - the Serve America and GIVE Acts - that, if passed, will usher in a new era of service in this new century...
...sense that it’s been long overdue,” Black Students Association president Timothy D. Turner ’09 said, noting that the BSA specifically spoke of the issue with Dean of the College Evelynn M. Hammonds last November.Hammonds reiterated her commitment to usher minority faculty into recently opened House Master positions in an interview with The Crimson in December.In early February, Hammonds announced the conclusion of her search, and Sullivan said he accepted without hesitation, making the historic selection official the day after Hammonds offered him the position.Sullivan and members of the administration pointed...