Word: northwest
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...amount of money to be competitive in California, but the road to Sacramento is littered with the bodies of failed parvenus: Michael Huffington, the former Republican Congressman and ex-husband of Arianna, blew $28 million on a failed Senate bid in 1994; Al Checchi, a former co-chairman of Northwest Airlines, spent $40 million losing to Gray Davis in the Democratic gubernatorial primary in 1998; and the businessman Bill Simon, who campaigned unsuccessfully against Davis in 2002. All of them were seen as overconfident and underprepared, liable to self-destruct when pressed on basic policy questions. Raphael Sonenshein, a political...
...editing error, an earlier version of the Dec. 10 news article "Harvard Pauses Allston Construction" incorrectly stated that molecular and cellular biology faculty were displaced from the Northwest Science Building. In fact, these faculty members were forced to move from the Sherman-Fairchild building and into the Northwest Science Building...
...least that's what FlyBy thought when we descended upon Northwest Labs Tuesday to take a look the CS50 Fair, which easily fielded about 200 people at any given moment in a techno-playing, popcorn-scented technological bonanza...
...coffins and don’t have issues with silly things like garlic or silver crosses. Sunshine slightly inconveniences the Cullens—in the light, they look like they’ve been bedazzled—but they handily solve the problem by living in the cloudy Pacific Northwest...
...targeting of schools - especially girls' and co-educational institutions - had long been restricted to the tribal belt in the northwest of the country. But the government offensive against militants in South Waziristan has changed that. A double-suicide attack on the International Islamic University in Islamabad in October sent government officials and parents in cities into a frenzy. Across the country, schools were told to close and security measures quickly improvised. Up to 30 million public and private students from pre-kindergarten through high school were affected, according to the latest figures from the Pakistan Ministry of Education...