Word: abrahamics
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...nitroglycerin pills for a dicey heart), his incessant self-celebration and his absolute refusal to believe there was anything finer than to be born an American, unless to die as one in some glorious battle for the flag, the great "Teddy" was as representative of 20th century dynamism as Abraham Lincoln had been of 19th century union and George Washington of 18th century independence...
...Abraham Tsoukalidis '99, EuroClub's vice-president of public relations, said Bagaric's hopeful attitude made him more optimistic about Bosnia...
...visit by the Yiddish poet Abraham Sutzkever to her mother's salon changed Wisse's mind...
Ultimately, the movie makes the case that Clinton and his mouthpieces are too squeamish to put on the record: strong leaders have strong libidos; the President may be flawed, but look what he has done. "You don't think Abraham Lincoln was a whore before he was a President?" Stanton asks his aide Henry Burton. "He had to tell his little stories and smile his s___-eating back-country grin. He did it all just so he'd get the opportunity to stand in front of the nation and appeal to the better angels of our nature." It's enough...
Officials say accuracy, not parsimony, is the goal. "Consumption patterns change," notes BLS commissioner Katharine Abraham. "New products enter the market. Old ones are modified or disappear. The market basket of today is totally different from that of a generation ago." There is a gold lining of sorts. The overstated inflation rate has kept interest rates unduly high because lenders account for inflation in setting rates. Allen Sinai of Primark Decision Economics believes that even with the changes, the CPI may be a full point too high. "Effectively, there is no inflation," he says. Now the government is making...