Word: wowing
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...responsibility to make sure that the - we just produced an estimate. We testified. We talked to hundreds of members of Congress. We said [we had] high confidence on chem/bio weapons. I believed it. But the way this gets dressed up and thrown out the door is, 'wow, this was the moment that this decision was made.' It's just not right...
...It’s difficult to make sexual assault immediately meaningful to somebody who hasn’t had a personal experience. It’s going to take a while,” Rankin said, “It’s not going to be like, wow, we just cured sex assault! God, I wish.”THE PRICE OF ANONYMITYA major obstacle to educating students is a lack of statistics pertaining specifically to Harvard’s campus. While HUPD keeps records of how many “forcible sexual offenses” occur each year...
...strokes, and at one point I was on the seven-seat,” second varsity coxswain Kevin He said. “So I told the guys, I’m on the seven, and everyone sort of woke up and was like, ‘Wow, we can do this.’”The boat moved up to almost a length’s advantage over Navy, at which point He heard the other boat’s coxswain making a call for the Midshipmen to move past the Crimson in the last 500 meters...
...Wow, Bono didn't point fingers at anyone or accuse the U.S. of not sending enough money to Africa. What a rarity from a celebrity! Bono's well-written insight is inspiring and has heart. He recognizes that the U.S. isn't the only country with Africa's fate resting on its shoulders. European nations also need to take action. Sarah Gooch, Columbia, Missouri...
...furniture designer, but his environmentalist scruples made him one. About a year and half ago, the M.I.T.-trained architect was dismayed to see a fleet of trucks turn up at one of his project sites every evening to haul away tons of rubbish. "I thought to myself, 'Wow, I'm building an energy-efficient building but I'm still producing a lot of waste,'" says Singh. He discovered that the garbage-including perfectly good plywood-was being incinerated, dumped in landfills or left by the roadside. Spurred into action, he started making furniture from the unwanted wood and sneaking...