Word: authorization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Hillary has lots of experience listening; most women spend many bored or happy hours listening to men. Good listeners always remember to keep their eyes on the person they're talking to without trying to see if there's someone more interesting standing behind." --DR. DEBORAH TANNEN, author, You Just Don't Understand
...projects are harder edged, targeting abortion and gay rights and promoting a vision of a Christian America some find overzealous. The DeMoss family, led by matriarch Nancy, 61, is politically and theologically conservative. Its charity was "an early and significant supporter of the religious right," says William Martin, author of With God on Our Side, a history of the movement. As the DeMoss Foundation demonstrates its willingness to pour tens of millions into reaching a mass audience, it inevitably courts the question, What are its larger social goals...
Suzanne Somers is the author of Get Skinny on Fabulous Food...
Most critics run on gas and sass. Jarrell, the poet, novelist, children's book author--what didn't he do, and do beautifully?--was a tireless lover of language. He fell in love (and in hate) with the poem or book under review, bringing it alive even as he anatomized it. These essays, selected by Brad Leithauser, open the reader to the Morgan Library of Jarrell's mind, ablaze with a sensible passion and aphoristic wit. "The people who live in a Golden Age," he wrote, "usually go around complaining how yellow everything looks." When Jarrell died in 1965, criticism...
...there's nothing easy about it. Jake Bernstein, author of The Compleat Day Trader, estimates that only 15% of those who take up day trading make much money at it. Many lose big because they don't have the discipline to sell immediately when a stock moves against them, or they leave a lot of money on the table by being too quick to capture profits when a stock starts to move their way. Often mistakes are a result of making overly large bets. "If you have too much at risk, you're prone to acting on emotion," Bernstein says...