Word: appeareance
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...mild-mannered economist who is approaching his six-month mark as chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, looked as focused as a patient parent listening to a child. Tom Carper, a Senator from Delaware, took note of Bernanke's attentiveness. One departed Cabinet secretary, Carper said, used to appear before Congress and "sit there with papers spread all around him and read this and that." Not Bernanke. "You listen to everyone," Carper said in amazement. And so Carper couldn't help bringing up the obvious question: "What do you actually think about when we give our opening statements...
...Zaged had several things working against him last Friday morning. First off, there was the timing. The air strikes appear to be worst late at night and early morning. Also, he was walking on a bridge, now well known targets as the city of Beirut is slowly cut off from the rest of the country. He did, however, have a huge advantage. He was hit close to Mount Lebanon Hospital in the southern suburbs of Beirut. Just 1 kilometer from Hizbollah headquarters, this private hospital has stayed open when most of the businesses around have shut down...
...these biologically unattractive standards of beauty. Let’s not forget, of course, our nation’s weary battle with obesity, the other extreme on the spectrum. But obesity, also a visual cue of infertility and unhealthiness, is hardly a worthy goal. The Western world prefers to appear hungry rather than sated. Commonly understood in the fashion industry is the concept that runway models are not the main attraction, but merely human coat hangers, used to display designers’ wares. Inexplicably, these human coat hangers have become the standard of beauty. As Grammer writes, although attractive features...
...electoral fraud. Calderón would therefore take office under the shadow of suspicion, and might struggle to find the support necessary to govern effectively from a congress in which he lacks a majority. Also, Obrador's supporters have taken to the street in the hundreds of thousands, and appear in no mood to accept a defeat they insist was fraudulent...
...upset, observers say, was due partly to low voter turnout and to the presence of a third "spoiler" candidate. But she also appears to have suffered from the controversy surrounding her scuffle with a Capitol Hill cop that landed her in a grand jury trial in which she was ultimately acquitted. Redistricting, which shed some of McKinney's antagonistic white constituency, did not appear to help...