Word: boredly
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...rest of the day, Qubah remained largely quiet as U.S. forces fanned out through the city. At each house, soldiers marked the back of the neck of each male with a number inked in black marker. By the end of the day, most every man in Qubah bore numbers like 600-10 and 730-5, designations for the neighborhood and home they were from according to a grid U.S. troops drew over the village. Lt. Col. Andrew Poppas said the numbering system allowed U.S. troops to tell whether anyone was moving about the village despite a lockdown...
...that’s ludicrous, because as they always say, where else could I meet such interesting, brilliant people as here at Harvard—people who have impressively collected a dilettante’s knowledge of quantum physics and Wittgenstein, and who aren’t afraid to bore me with it over beers...
...late 2004, when management guru Tom Peters cast off the consulting and training company that bore his name, the folks left behind were pretty scared. Yet the partners of the renamed Bluepoint Leadership Development say that they are better managed without the world-famous management consultant and author of In Search of Excellence and Re-imagine! than with him: higher revenues, doubled profitability, loyalty from old clients and a roster of new ones like Starbucks, DHL and GE. "Fortune called Tom Peters the Ur-guru of management," says Bluepoint partner David Parks, "but apparently not when it comes to running...
...thoughtful lyrics, such as “You can beat the system but you can’t beat the biz” (“She Took My Money”) and “This is the last chorus / I don’t want to bore us” (“Greedy Awful People”), others can be just plain silly. Speaketh Iggy the sage on “I’m Fried”: “Deep fried / Re-fried / Stir-fried / I’m fried.” One wishes...
Australian soldiers kept Barros' body for two days after the raid; when delivered to the makeshift morgue at Dili's Gido Valadares hospital, it bore the marks of an autopsy-an examination Barros' family say was carried out without their permission. Holes and marks on Barros' clothes suggested he had been wounded in the back of the neck, right buttock and chest. Barros' sister, Francesca da Cruz, speculates that he was hit from behind by bullets fired from a helicopter...