Word: answered
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...honest answer is, because otherwise she might have missed the opportunity to buy a $380 dress for $40. Watching Thurman deliver this line, I thought of the opportunity Dieckmann missed. Her eye for the details of motherhood, from the list-making to the depressing nature of adults socializing in a sandbox while their precious offspring play, is so acute. If she would just edit out the few soft touches designed to make us like Eliza - like her kind attentions to an elderly neighbor - Motherhood would play like a flat-out parody of the entitled, self-involved mother, fretting more than...
...scheduled to have an operation, here's something to add to your list of questions for the surgeon: Will you need an assistant surgeon? If the answer is yes, ask who will it be and who will pay him. Make a call to your insurer to ask about payment for that assistant to be there. And wear sneakers. You might get quite a runaround...
...question is, Are biofuels really green? A pair of new studies in the Oct. 22 issue of Science damningly demonstrate that the answer is no, at least not the way we currently create and use them. In the first study, a team of researchers led by Jerry Melillo of the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Mass., projected the effects of a major biofuel expansion over the coming century and found that it could end up increasing global greenhouse-gas emissions instead of reducing them. In the second paper, another team of researchers led by Tim Searchinger of Princeton University...
Through carefully-crafted questions that were designed to derive valuable information from responses such as “no,” “I don’t know,” and “we can’t answer that,” I was able to get somewhere...
...These locally-owned independents don’t have to go all the way up the ladder to get an answer to change something,” she said. “They can react more quickly to a shifting economy in how to cut back hours, how to hire, than the larger chain stores...