Word: waging
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...know what buttons to press and levers to pull. Already, by going to court, they have stopped the government from reclaiming even more land from what little harbor we have left. Now they are fighting for a host of causes, from fewer skyscrapers and roads to a minimum wage for low-skilled workers to patients' rights to better education for underprivileged children. With the rich getting richer, these ngos are needed more than ever to speak and act for the disadvantaged...
...original, Leonidas (Phantom of the Opera's Gerald Butler) goes to the swinish holy men, the Ephors, for permission to wage a defense against the million-man army of the Persian monarch Xerxes (Rodrigo Santoro, from Lost). The oracle waffles, but Leonidas, saying he's just going out for a stroll with his private guards, leaves his wife Gorgo (The Brothers Grimm's Lena Headey) and leads his loyal band to their desperate and storied destiny. He might have triumphed, if the homunculus Ephialtes (Andrew Tiernan, from British TV) had not betrayed the Greeks and told Xerxes their strategy...
...takes for your house to start looking like Narnia. 6) Keep the heat in and the cold out by closing the windows and the blinds—keep annoying exes out by closing your eyes and pretending you don’t hear the pounding at your door. 7) Wage a war on energy leaks. Assignment one: Kick down next door neighbor’s door and rip out his alarm clock from the socket. Apparently polite Post-Its about his blaring alarm are ineffective. 8) Get a dining hall dog to help with the no-potato-left-behind effort...
...group, the Resource Efficiency Program (REP), enjoys an unusual relationship with Harvard. The program, started in 2002, received over $300,000 from Harvard to get off the ground and the College now invests over $120,000 in REP annually. Each REP leader is also paid an hourly wage to encourage them to get out the sustainable word...
...will take possession of several dozen new happy souls. But one less happy consequence of this feeling is the fierce debate, already raging on house lists, over the garb in which they shall enrobe their novitiates. Internal strife has engulfed Quincy, Winthrop, and Mather, among others, prompting students to wage ferocious verbal battle in an attempt to persuade each other that their T-shirt design is, indeed, the best. As Charles J. Swanson ’08, one particularly zealous member of the Winthrop clan, wrote in an e-mail on the Winthrop House e-mail list after a fierce...