Word: vesting
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...give people from warmer places locals as roommates. My roommate, who hails from Newton, Mass., advises that cold weather is best dealt with by dressing lightly and running from place to place. When it started snowing yesterday, he wore a long-sleeved shirt and a light fleece vest. Being cold in October toughens you up for when it really gets frigid in December, he reasons...
Jones has kept her cards, so to speak, close to her vest. She has bypassed defense motions to toss the case, yet her pointed questions to the plaintiff sometimes mimic remarks by its critics--for example, that banks are already lining up behind individual brands. "If the market is going that way anyway, why do you want me to do anything?" she asked U.S. attorney Melvin Schwarz. To prevent a return to duality, he said. That might or might not happen, but as a former card executive puts it, "this is definitely a case where everyone's a little guilty...
...disastrous gaffes. And everyone involved in the campaign wants to keep it that way. Look for Bush to hammer away on smaller government, laissez-faire policies and personal accountability. The key for Bush? Avoiding unscripted moments: The Bush entourage will play these last weeks very close to the vest, answering only pre-approved questions and carefully controlling their candidate's exposure...
...threatening conditions that did not have to exist. As members of Scott's family as well as of the Harvard community, we take offense and ask that The Crimson desist from ever again referencing Scott Krueger as "a first-year who drank himself to death." And, as MIT President Vest said in his press release, let us "now move on with the healing process...
...This was supposed to be the close-to-the-vest debate, the stiff, podium-chained debate in which candidates stuck close to their stump speeches and took no chances with attacks. It wasn't exactly that -- in fact, it wasn't long before a passive Jim Lehrer let all those meticulously negotiated time constraints go right out the window...