Word: accustomedness
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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When it comes to money, Chinese basketball has hands of stone?a fact many owners and managers blame on the control-happy CBA itself. The league is run as a government sports program. Top officials are Communist Party appointees accustomed to top-down dictatorship?and the league's lack of...
We hold these truths to be self evident, that all students are created equal, that they are endowed by the University with certain unalienable rights, that among these are choice, intellectual stimulation and at least eight electives. That to secure these rights, curricular guidelines are instituted among Faculty, deriving their...
Needless to say, I left the room feeling uneasy. We have come to expect a certain level of invasion, grown accustomed to the corporate world subliminally and overtly attempting to infiltrate our minds’ everyday processes. But are we willing to give up the sanctity of our bathrooms?
It's not so much their years that separate boomers from other AARP members, Fishman says. It's attitude. Born in a time of affluence, highly educated and accustomed to rebellion, boomers take it for granted they will reshape the world to fit their needs. "If they think of retirement...
No matter how many times tearful widows accuse him of protecting the airlines, Feinberg does not blush. A lawyer with decades of experience in the messy art of compromise (Feinberg was special master for the $180 million distributed to veterans exposed to Agent Orange), he is accustomed to rage. "On...