Word: ax
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Have you recently taken an ax to your ten-year-old ceramic piggy, only to find the bank’s empty? Maybe you spent a little too much on new spring clothes…or more realistically, on late-night coffee runs to Starbucks/JP Licks/7-11/Dunkin Donuts? Fail to get that summer internship at...wait, which banks are left? Was the only summer internship you got unpaid...
...regularly publishes reports of incompetence, corruption and brutality - stories of police following no code at all. On International Women's Day, the press reported a story of an officer getting drunk at a precinct house in western Moscow and chopping off the hand of a junior officer with an ax. It was reported that the officer was fired, though the matter was hushed up and it is unlikely he will face time in prison...
...path to that goal is to appoint a truth-finding panel. We could develop and authorize a person or group of people universally recognized as fair-minded and without an ax to grind. Their straightforward mission would be to find the truth. People would be invited to come forward and share their knowledge and experiences, not for purposes of constructing criminal indictments but to assemble the facts. If needed, such a process could involve subpoena powers and even the authority to obtain immunity from prosecution in order to get to the whole truth...
...great passion was anthropology.THC: Did you ever consider not going into music full time? Maybe going into anthropology?YYM: Absolutely. I always thought that I should do something other than music, because I always did music, and it was part of my life. I have a good friend, Emanuel Ax, who said to me, “Yo-Yo, you’ve just got to stop thinking that your profession is an interruption of your life.” Music is part of my life, but there’s a life separate from my life as a musician...
...products and bring in new revenue, people tend to become self-absorbed," says Wayne Cascio, a professor of management at the University of Colorado Denver. "They tend to say, 'I don't want to stick my neck out too far, because I don't want to get the ax...