Word: wintered
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...sustained by the folks who got it off the ground. That's not going to happen to JetBlue. On Thursday the airline's board of directors pulled the ripcord on JetBlue's founder and CEO, David Neeleman in the wake of February's epic meltdown, in which a winter storm left thousands of passengers stranded. Some sat in JetBlue planes at JFK for up to 8 hours. You don't do that in a city where people get ticked off if a subway is delayed for 30 seconds...
...this finely calibrated novel gives voice to a girl's tentative coming of age. But just as powerfully, it addresses the dilemma of inhabiting, spiritually as well as spatially, the vast continent of Australia. The daughter of Shakespeare-obsessed Stella, and named after Hermione's abandoned daughter from The Winter's Tale, Perdita can't reconcile the vast Outback landscape of her childhood with the transported English culture of her schooling-"all this life, all this huge unelaborated life, told her there was more on heaven and earth than was dreamt of by Mister Shakespeare." Neglected by her self-absorbed...
...father's groove, becoming a leader in the Mormon Church, a business whiz, a Republican Governor who defied his party's orthodoxy and won in a Democratic state. Each engineered the spectacular rescue of a failing enterprise: the elder Romney, a car company; the younger one, the 2002 Winter Olympics. And now, at 60, Mitt is the age his father was when he ran for President, almost to the month. Romney sees it too, as he told George Stephanopoulos on ABC, "My dad, I mean, I am a small shadow of the real deal...
While the fire doors were checked at the beginning of the year and over winter break, the level of security will now be stepped up, according to Gehrke...
...didn’t want to underestimate them—we wanted to stick to above 36 [strokes per minute],” two-seat Winter Mead said. “Within 20 strokes, we had about four seats on them, and we kept pushing and finished with a pretty solid...