Word: maelstrom
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...rhetoric—the whole Web site does," as one student eloquently stated at a subsequent town hall meeting. In September, Smith announced that FAS had cut about half of its $220 million projected annual deficit, heralding some good news to pierce what had been an unwieldy fiscal maelstrom for the earlier part...
...Florida mansion early on Nov. 27. (The multimillionaire athlete will be issued a citation for reckless driving, according to local authorities.) Dubbed a "New York City party girl," Uchitel insists the Enquirer's report is false and says she has met Woods only on two brief occasions. Nevertheless, the maelstrom of attention surrounding the clean-cut Woods' accident has turned Uchitel into a full-blown media star - at least for the moment. (See more about Tiger Woods' rich Florida community, Isleworth...
...Levitt and Dubner are about to land in the middle of this maelstrom with a new book, Superfreakonomics. It's very good - jauntier and more assured than their first. But is the world ready for freakonomics again? Or, to put it another way, can the freakonomists restore our shaken faith in economics...
Harvard’s invested endowment assets took a 27.3 percent hit this past fiscal year, amidst an economic maelstrom that Harvard Management Company CEO and President Jane L. Mendillo called “very likely the most challenging period in modern times for the financial markets as well as for the Harvard portfolio...
...hopefuls that, eventually, led to a history-making Commander in Chief. Journalists Dan Balz and Haynes Johnson - current and former Washington Post reporters, respectively - capture the momentous contest in a polished account refreshingly free of last year's breathless soundbites, pundit insta-reaction or fixation on trifling gaffes (the maelstrom over President Obama's "lipstick on a pig" comment warrants barely a mention). Instead, it provides an evenhanded and comprehensive account of the race, based on interviews with key players and enhanced by the perspective of time and distance. (Read Mark Halperin's Final Campaign Report Cards...