Word: particularity
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...speech full of criticism for President Barack Obama's stimulus plan, Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal singled out one program for particular scorn. "Instead of monitoring volcanoes, what Congress should be monitoring is the eruption of spending in Washington," Jindal said, deriding the $140 million appropriated to the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) for "something called volcano-monitoring" as one of the most egregious bits of pork to lard up the $787 billion stimulus package. But to those who live under the looming threat of flowing lava, it was a poor punch line. "Does the governor have a volcano in his backyard...
...billion. To that end, Paris is rolling out a campaign introducing new quality standards for businesses serving tourists, the goal being to get Parisians to act with greater hospitality out of economic self-interest (since go-out-of-your-way kindness to strangers is not, shall we say, a particular Parisian strength). Tourism boards have set up information and hospitality offices at airports and throughout metro Paris. To address the looming shortfall of hotel rooms, the municipality plans to add 7,500 rooms to the existing stable of 75,000 over the next few years. To help tourists choose, officials...
...life,” O’Connor recalls. “That’s 45 minutes from home. I grew up being a Big Red wrestling fan.” He loved his Cornell visit, but out of all of his recruiting trips, one stood out in particular. In Cambridge, O’Connor felt some sort of mysterious Crimson calling. Harvard seemed to make sense on paper, but there was something else that he couldn’t pinpoint. “They had a great program,” he said of Harvard...
...particular emphasis on cultural mobility derives from a sense of the way the discipline is going now,” said English Professor W. James Simpson, who sat on the committee that drafted the new curriculum...
Most things in the Maldives are comfortingly formulaic. The pashmina-soft sand, gin-clear sea and romantic villas are the very reasons people go there. But with around 90 islands to choose from, visitors also expect something that sets apart their particular piece of paradise...