Word: aren
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...government, fearing more violence after the final, declared a ban on vehicle traffic beginning half an hour before Sunday's 1-0 victory over Saudi Arabia. Daytime curfews aren't uncommon in Baghdad and Iraq's other large cities. But the streets were even more deserted than usual Sunday afternoon as Iraqis could not be pried from their TVs. Most fans, facing 120-degree temperatures and confined to their neighborhoods by the vehicle ban, watched at home or with friends. In poorer neighborhoods fans without televisions gathered at tea houses. Emptied of people, the streets were given over to stray...
...Wall Street wants to get even more worried about the real estate market, it need look no further than southern California. There, the culprits aren't just the bad-credit borrowers whom banks and lenders loaded up with ballooning debt to purchase their dream homes. The well-to-do have partaken of those treacherous loans as well. And now everyone is hard-pressed to pay as interest rates rise...
Romantics might prefer that the great man be left alone, but the scientists aren't about to bow before convention or literary legend. "Sapere aude - that which one can know, one should dare to know," argues Hellmut Seemann, president of the Weimar Classics Foundation, a cultural institution that oversees a memorial to Schiller and that helped initiate the project. "We believe it's our duty to resolve whether the remains thought to belong to Friedrich Schiller are authentic...
...night in a 257-year-old fort, the retiree from Chappaqua, N.Y., helped set up medical camps and distribute books to schools and goats to poor families. She found the experience so inspiring that she's going back in October. Volunteer vacations also channel tourism dollars to places that aren't usually featured in glossy travel brochures and don't have the infrastructure to support three-star, let alone four- or five-star, hotels. For scenic places desperately in need of economic development, "this kind of tourism is an easier sell," says Kristin Lamoureux, director of the International Institute...
...from customers. The conventional lie is that marketing informs. Maybe it does, peripherally. It's really done to persuade. But is it fine to persuade patients, so you can squeeze more money from them? Is it fine to scare patients into tests and iffy treatments, to persuade people who aren't sick - who are not patients - that they need treatment anyway? It is far from fine to treat patients like customers...