Word: withered
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...Love.” The wistful pop of these years accompanies Mottola’s use of frequent pans and circling close-ups. The songs speak to carefree satisfaction as much as they hint to nostalgic sadness in the face of fading youth.Just as the promises of adolescence gradually wither, the movie loses steam as it recedes into melodrama. When James applies to work at Adventureland, he asks for a job in rides but the manager hands him a games job instead, informing him of the cardinal rule of games: “Nobody ever wins a giant-ass panda...
...over her opposition to the Solomon Amendment, a measure allowing military recruiters on college campuses, and lack of appelate court experience. But it was Kagan’s unwillingness to answer questions posed by Specter, the ranking Republican on the Judiciary Committee, that caused support for her nomination to wither among Republicans. Kagan garnered just eight Republican votes in support of her nomination. In a letter to Kagan after her confirmation hearing, Specter asked the Harvard Dean to elaborate on her responses to written questions. But Kagan declined, arguing that the Solicitor General would be unwise to explain personal opinions...
...inversion of the name of Nobel Peace Prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, whose National League for Democracy may be the junta's most potent opposition. By inverting Suu Kyi's name, perhaps the superstitious junta believes that the kyet-suu plant will cause her democracy movement to wither away. (Read about Burma's ethnic minorities...
...general, Harvard’s add/drop system is extremely flexible, offering students opportunity to fine-tune their schedules long into the term. However, the fee for changing classes seems like an expendable vestige of past policies that should be allowed to wither away. Serving no reasonable financial purpose and attaching a stigma to changing classes after the third Monday of the term, Harvard’s $10 add/drop charge should be abolished. Like students at other schools, students here should not have to forgo a trip to the movies to alter their schedules...
...fairly high. The trouble with that is not what will happen to AIG. As the market found out with the Lehman Brothers bankruptcy, many of the firms that are doing business with a very large financial institution when it becomes insolvent can have transactions worth billions of dollars wither voided or devalued...