Word: task
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...solution in sight. Higher interest rates would reduce inflation, but could at the same time greatly endanger the already stretched household budgets of Spanish consumers. Some 90% of Spanish mortgages are variable-rate loans, so an interest hike would cause real pain. Squaring that circle would be a difficult task for any central bank. But the European Central Bank in Frankfurt can't worry too much about cooling down Spain when the economies of much of the rest of the euro zone - witness Germany and Italy - are in cryonic suspension. Clearly, the Spanish government has to rely...
...strange creatures and bizarre customs that they, and evidently nobody else, encountered in their wanderings. But modern practitioners - Bruce Chatwin, Paul Theroux, Pico Iyer - have helped elevate travel writing, if not to a science, then at least to an art that values truth. No one has mastered that task more deftly than Jan Morris, 79, the England-born, thoroughly Welsh writer and historian. In more than 40 books and countless essays over the past half-century, she has marshaled reportorial insight and literary flair to describe nearly every interesting place on the planet. Unique among them is Hav, the microscopic...
...receive the vaccine, and when. They are considering making the vaccine mandatory, like the childhood immunizations against measles and rubella, for all girls aged 11-12. Based on the CDC's recommendation, state officials and private insurers will then determine whether they will pay for the shots - no easy task since the vaccine is given three times over six months and costs $360. In order to be most effective, say doctors, Gardasil should be given to young girls before they become sexually active and are potentially exposed to the virus. The FDA approved the vaccine for girls and women ranging...
...outlining its intentions for the next half century.“President Summers’ departure should not disrupt the process in any significant way,” writes Whitehead Professor of Political Philosophy Dennis Thompson, who chaired the 1997 University Physical Planning Committee and later the Allston Life Task Force, in an e-mail. “The basic goals are set, and the planning has a momentum of its own now.”But though the outgoing president may have pushed the first phase of Allston planning past the point of no return, professors say that further...
...astute sense for today’s big ideas with an unprecedented dedication to undergraduate education. He suggested in his inaugural address that students at the College were being shortchanged, recalling the words of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Class of 1861, who asserted that “it is our task to set their minds on fire.” From funding social events and renovations to revamping financial aid to teaching courses himself, Summers has been the president most actively involved in undergraduate life in recent memory. As many of today’s graduates will attest, these changes have...