Word: wards
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...Ward Bower, principal at Altman Weil, a legal management consulting firm in Newtown Square, Pa., predicts many U.S.-based law firms will earn nearly 10% less in 2009 than they did in 2008 - performance that threatens to cause upheaval...
Members of the Harvard University Police Department as well as officers of the Cambridge and Massachusetts State Police forces, accompanied the fire-fighters, spreading out along a stretch of the Charles River between Eliot and Mather Houses to ward away undergraduates from the river’s bank...
...Khan had chosen was an unlikely source of hostages - a public hospital for poor women and children, funded by a wealthy Mumbai family. The second floor was the neonatal intensive-care unit, and one of the eight people killed at the hospital was a relative visiting the maternity ward. Sonawane said he and the other doctors locked the doors of the unit and tried to keep everyone quiet as the grenades went off, causing the entire building to vibrate. "We put the babies on the breasts of the mothers to stop the crying," he said. Five police officers were killed...
...This message was long ago delivered to the White House. One senior Administration official explained the situtation, last week, during an interview in the Ward Room, a navy themed dining hall near the White House mess. "If you reflect back on what health-care reform looked like and how it played out 15 years ago, some of the stakeholders who were fighting very hard against it are people who I think will start to come around to the table for the conversation now," the official said...
...leadership and debate over development plans in the nearby Silver Maple Forest brought both celebration and contention to last night’s Cambridge City Council meeting. Following the resignation of Vice Mayor Brian P. Murphy ’86-’87 last month, Larry Ward was chosen to fill the vacancy on the council. Councillor Sam Seidel was elected by unanimous vote of the Council—though one councillor was not in attendance—to take over as Vice-Mayor at last night’s meeting. Both were then given the oath of office...