Word: difficult
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...elicits memories from you that are totally false. They are planted; they are conjured out of smoke ... Eventually - sometimes, if you're lucky - these people will recant, but the torture they put their families through is incredible because there are some people who are sexually abused, so it's difficult to sort out the true from the false in that circumstance. What interested me was the whole issue of what happens if you have no credibility, what happens if you've been in this circumstance and you've accused your parents of dastardly deeds and then recanted, and then...
That helps explain why, even in a season of thinner wallets, the $7.5 billion-a-year greeting-card industry is holding up pretty well, according to the Greeting Card Association. "Card sending seems to remain relatively strong even during difficult economic times," says spokeswoman Barbara Miller, who notes the association is projecting that stores will sell 2 billion holiday cards this year, the same number they sold last year...
...wouldn’t be difficult to pick out Chas F. Gillespie ’10 from the crowds of flashing sneakers and long legs at a cross-country meet. His distinctive get-up, like a “NBA: Stay in School” baseball cap—discovered in a summer job’s Lost and Found pile—along with his 14:01 minute 5K—3rd best in Harvard history—set him apart from the pack...
...When I first got to Harvard it was difficult for me, because it was a very different environment. I was black, but I didn’t feel like I was from Africa, nor was I African-American. People would ask me, ‘Why are you Nigerian with an English accent?’ It was weird always having to explain myself, and I was constantly feeling a need to conform to something or to be somebody,” explains Johnson...
...clear how wide-ranging Webster's probe will be, and opinions vary on its scope. Bill Burck, a former deputy counsel to President George W. Bush, said that while Webster's previous probes tended to looked for policy lapses or fault, this review may be more difficult. The review could go to the heart of assessing threats posed by radicalized Americans, who have rights that terrorists from outside the country do not. "That presents a very difficult set of questions about how do you balance the traditional law-enforcement approach to deal with those threats - which is typically...