Word: wakes
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...offers of help also came from judges, politicians, diplomats, colleagues and ordinary Joes. And on Monday at noon, traffic was blocked for five minutes in all of Serbia's major towns and cities as a symbolic gesture against the attack. So the grenades may have served as a wake-up call to Serbia to renounce violence and stop its slide toward the ugly past. Maybe this time, it will stay awake...
This trip from private equity to public conglomerate and back wasn't pointless. According to company calculations, if you count every spinoff and asset sale--plus a $2.8 billion shareholder lawsuit payout in the wake of the CUC mess--a dollar invested in HFS when it went public in 1992 would be worth more than $14 now--a 22% annual return, or more than double the performance of the S&P 500. Which means Silverman is probably worth listening to on one of the great questions of our day: Is it better for a company to be traded...
This change would come in the wake of MBB’s establishment of its own secondary field outside of any department...
While most other Ivy League universities issued letters of condolence to their communities in the wake of the Virginia Tech shootings on Monday, Harvard’s top administrators have remained largely silent and left the job of consoling students to the undergraduate Houses...
...things more difficult, there has been a rash of recent high-profile lawsuits involving students who were summarily booted off campus after they were deemed at risk of suicide. Last August, New York City's Hunter College agreed to pay $65,000 to settle such a case. In the wake of these suits, the Governor of Virginia signed a bill last month that prohibits state colleges from penalizing or expelling students "solely" for attempting suicide or seeking mental-health treatment for suicidal thoughts. The law's primary goal is to encourage kids to get help, and it also requires schools...