Word: auto
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...occupants of the car lifted its hood as chanting priests began forming a circle seven or eight deep around the vehicle. Prayer beads in his hand, a phlegmatic, 73-year-old monk named Thich Quang Duc sat down cross-legged in the center of the circle. From under the auto's hood, a monk took a canister of gasoline and poured it over the old priest. An expression of serenity on his wizened face, Quang Duc suddenly struck a match. As flames engulfed his body, he made not a single cry nor moved a muscle. "Oh my God," cried...
Your story quoted health-care economist Uwe Reinhardt, who said that medical outsourcing "has the potential of doing to the U.S. health-care system what the Japanese auto industry did to American carmakers." Such comments are typical of so-called experts who pontificate while others try to repair a flawed but high-quality system. Reinhardt seems blissfully unaware of the difficulties doctors and hospitals face in delivering quality care to our patients. True, our health-care system needs better transparency so patients can make informed choices. We need to run efficient operating rooms and hospitals. But we are able...
...SHED DEBT Start with credit cards, then auto loans. Move on to your home-equity line of credit and, last, your mortgage. That isn't easy, and automatic payments can really help. So does thinking of it this way: if you have $10,000 in credit-card debt and are paying only the minimum, adding $1 a day to the payment will save you $12,615 in interest expense and retire the debt 35 years earlier, according to The Late Saver's Guidebook nefe.org) The sooner you stop paying interest, the more you will save...
...water - Koné came to France at 10, unable to speak the local language. He got a prelaw degree in the hope of becoming a police inspector. A talent for boxing earned him two French amateur titles and selection to represent France in the 1996 Summer Games. But an auto accident in early 1995 shattered his left knee; Koné required 12 operations and five years of rehabilitation. The injury ended Koné's Olympic and career dreams. But it set the stage for what would later become Airness - whose panther logo was drawn from Koné's nickname from...
...College last year after submitting theses that were prepared by a professional thesis-writing service. The service, called “editorial consultants,” will research, outline, draft, and type up a 60 page thesis on any subject for as little as $20.10/24: A head-on auto collision kills a 38 year-old woman and injures two students. A rise in tuition is predicted a day later: $1000 high. Endowment hits new high: $442M.10/31: The business school broadens the scope of the student aid fund. Four days later, Aldrich acquits Kamin on two accounts, two remain.11/5...