Word: bachelors
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...sounds as if you domesticated him. Yes, Jerry was quite a bachelor when we met. There was nowhere to put your cocktail down in his place. Just the Ping-Pong table...
...Bolten, who brings a sly and dry humor to a back-breaking job (and start counting the number of times you read he?s a Harley-riding bachelor), is a former Goldman Sachs investment banker who was policy director of Bush?s 2000 campaign and was his first deputy chief of staff for policy. So he is steeped in the current system. As a further sign of stability amidst change, White House insiders predicted that Bolten?s successor will be his deputy, Joel Kaplan - a veteran of both the Marine Corps and Bolten?s policy shops in Austin...
...However, despite starring 2005’s Sexiest Man Alive and the former Carrie Bradshaw, “Failure To Launch,” at the end of the day, is still a by-the-books romantic comedy that adds nothing new to the genre. Tripp (McConaughey), a womanizing bachelor coasting through his thirties, is still living in his childhood home. His fed-up parents (Kathy Bates of “About Schmidt” and football star Terry Bradshaw) hire Paula (Parker), a professional interventionist who makes men fall in love with her so that they will move...
...said to me, ‘You should go where people are smarter than you are,’” Gomes recalls. “It was almost as careless as that.” And in 1965, Gomes entered the Harvard Divinity School.Gomes earned his bachelor of sacred theology degree, the precursor to the MDiv, in 1968. During his time at HDS, he began to see an unexpected intersection.“I found people who were bright and pious,” Gomes says. “I’d thought those were water-tight...
...Such shockingly careful behavior is almost certainly a backlash to the shockingly egregious instances of expense-account excess that have come to light in recent years. In one case, brokers hoping to win more business from Fidelity Investments treated one of the firm?s traders to a lavish bachelor party, including private jet travel, female companionship and, yes, dwarf tossing, not necessarily in that order. The hosts expensed it. Last year, the CEO of Savvis Communications resigned in the wake of a $241,000 charge to his corporate card during an evening with business associates at a strip club...