Word: cardinale
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Most of the league had privately already conceded the title to the Yankees, barring catastrophic injury. Toronto tipped that off by breaking a cardinal rule of trading a superstar within its own division.
Charlie, the smooth-haired twin, quotes a young cousin who, informed that the best Cardinal becomes Pope, asked, "So Mark McGwire will be next?" Tom, the twin with the hat, reports some of his classmates talking about scalping papal tickets. "The first thing that came into my mind," he says...
Although it didn't have to battle the elements of winter in Hawaii and California, the Harvard wrestling team got plenty of opportunity to battle opponents on the mats. Harvard competed twice during break, first at the Aloha Classic and then at Stanford. The team wrapped up the trip with...
I find this argument solid on intellectual grounds, but it can easily violate another cardinal American virtue: the defense of minority rights. It's obvious that religious people have a right to vote their beliefs, but the imposition of religious symbols on public discourse leave minorities feeling oppressed and fearing...
The problem is called path-dependency. It breaks the cardinal rule of economics, that inefficiencies in a product will eventually be weeded out if there is adequate competition. Unfortunately, once a path has been established for a certain technology or process to develop, it becomes difficult to break out of...