Word: aways
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Goldman Sachs is a giant pig. A giant pig that blows bubbles through a wand shaped like a dollar sign. A giant pig that laughs at us when we invest in worthless dotcom stocks. A giant pig that happily watches us get carried away and burned by rising home prices. A giant pig that smiles widely when we have to fill our tanks with $4-a-gallon gas. Quite simply, the investment bank that is revered on Wall Street could just be a bunch of crooks, and greedy ones at that...
...only had two itineraries for the day I planned to travel (I think she thought I was being very demanding for not wanting to arrive in a strange city at 4 a.m.). After wrangling with her for about 45 minutes, trying to negotiate the cheapest itineraries, I came away with three tickets for journeys that take on average 10 hours each, and I still have to book one in Spain because apparently I couldn’t reserve that particular route in France. Europe’s comprehensive rail system is still a great achievement, but navigating the thing...
...from the Post Party Plan incident - apart from the fact that you should always copyedit your invitations - it's that credibility and prestige are two of the most valuable assets the mainstream media has. In attempting to monetize them, it has to be extremely careful not to fritter them away...
...vindication, or even relief, when a standard bearer for the "traditional family" fails to pull it off. This is ultimately self-defeating. It is time instead to come to terms with both our unrealistic expectations for a happy marriage and our equally unrealistic beliefs about the consequences of walking away from the families we build. (See pictures of classic weddings on LIFE.com...
...seems like if this cycle is going to be broken, it's going to require changing people's behavior on a really large scale. The first thing I suggest is, when you see something and you're motivated by price - and we all are - you walk away. Take a walk around the store and think about it. Freud said there are two parts of our thinking system. The primary process is the impulsive, playful, I've-gotta-have-it-now side. The second is the more thoughtful, contemplative side. Get that secondary process going. Think about why you want this...