Word: ward
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...crime-rate increase could more appropriately be assigned to the lazy few who are on state benefits without good cause - benefits provided by the taxes paid by the public, including a vast number of immigrants. It's ironic that when those same moaning scroungers end up in the emergency ward with injuries from a drunken fight, they are cared for by foreign-born nurses and doctors. People need to learn more about the prejudices they so steadfastly harbor. Martin Webb Reading, England Back-Channel Chats Your report "Talking With The Enemy" described secret meetings between U.S. negotiators and Iraqi insurgents...
...alternatives. You don't need a Sherpa's lungs to scale some of the region's best-loved mountains, and you can get to the foot of many of them by public transport. Some even have comfortable trailhead accommodation. Preclimb points to remember: carry plenty of drinking water to ward off dehydration at higher altitudes; pack warm, waterproof gear; take it easy on the throttle, because ascending slowly will help you acclimatize to the thinner air; and, for safety's sake, consider hiring a local guide who knows the route and can read the mountain's moods. With that checklist...
...recent high-profile examples: Chinese computer giant Lenovo three months ago announced that American Stephen Ward, a senior vice president at IBM, would become its new CEO as part of its acquisition of IBM's PC-manufacturing business. When the deal is complete, Ward, a 26-year IBM veteran, will run Lenovo from his headquarters outside New York City, far from Lenovo's home base in Beijing. In September, Acer, Taiwan's best-known computer maker, tapped Italian Gianfranco Lanci to be its president. Lanci earned the post after spearheading a major turnaround of Acer's business in Western Europe...
...bill might have been winding its way quietly through committee right now, if not for University of Colorado professor Ward Churchill. Controversy erupted in January after word spread among students and alumni at Hamilton College in New York that Churchill, who had been invited to speak there, had penned an essay equating U.S. foreign policy with Nazi Germany's conduct in World War II and labeling some of the people working in the World Trade Center "little Eichmanns," after the architect of the Holocaust. Hamilton canceled Churchill's engagement, but the furor spread. Outraged Colorado house members unanimously passed...
...data have been compiled, but with his thesis date quickly approaching, Ward soon expects to have a clearer idea of which part of the Harvard campus reigns supreme. HUDS debates will just have to wait for a different graduate student...