Word: wente
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...general counsel saying that it was the bank's understanding that the bonuses had been reduced to $3.57 billion. What's more, a former senior Merrill Lynch executive told TIME.com, before the bonuses were actually distributed in late-December a member of Bank of America's human-relations department "went over, line by line" the bonuses that were to be paid to each Merrill Lynch executive...
...hometown of Bryn Mawr, Penn. is a field hockey hotspot and, as one of six sisters—all of whom play competitively—Keating seemed destined to pick up a stick.“Field hockey is really big in my area, even more so because I went to Catholic school,” Keating says. “When I was younger, my grade school didn’t even offer soccer.”So it was lacrosse and field hockey for the budding star through high school, a time when Keating proved herself...
...with a B.A. in English. What did you imagine yourself doing at the time? What most surprises you when you look back on your trajectory?TK: I wanted to be a writer—either Ernest Hemingway or F. Scott Fitzgerald, but I made a pretty stupid mistake and went into the army and into Vietnam. Fortunately it didn’t turn out too badly for me. The way it turned out, it surprises me that it’s worked and that I’ve been able to write for a living. And I feel that although...
...Immigration Representative Joe Wilson may have gotten himself into trouble when he yelled "You lie!" at President Obama during the address to the joint session of Congress, but it certainly seems that Democrats took his outburst to heart. Senate Finance negotiators went back to the table and rewrote the bill to ensure not only that illegal immigrants would be prevented from receiving government subsidies to buy insurance, but that they wouldn't be able to purchase insurance on the so-called exchanges even if they could pay for it in full. The plan also tightens the rules for some legal...
...course, dissent is not limited to the students. In the aftermath of the postelection crisis, dozens of professors resigned or went on strike over the crackdown and more were thought to have been whisked to notorious Evin prison. In late August, Khamenei rekindled fears of a purge of "un-Islamic" faculty, declaring that studying the social sciences "promotes doubts and uncertainty." Speaking in front of a group of conservative students and professors, he said, "Many of the humanities and liberal arts are based on philosophies whose foundations are materialism and disbelief in godly and Islamic teachings...