Word: carte
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...moral argument against non-prescription oral contraceptives is that sex, and all that jazz, should be a big deal: If women are allowed to purchase the pill willy-nilly then they will all go around have lots of sex and being generally licentious. Again, this argument puts the cart before the horse, assuming doctors’ appointments uphold moral attitudes. Most individuals make decisions about sex based on their own personal moral and social circumstances, not on the availability of pills and condoms—after all, anyone can pick up the latter freely at CVS. And even...
...deal, and Cerberus agreed to invest a few billion dollars to help get struggling Chrysler back on its feet. Just after the transaction was announced, DaimlerChrysler CEO Dieter Zetsche (he of the big mustache and the TV ads) bristled when a journalist suggested that he had paid Cerberus to cart Chrysler away: "It was clearly stated that Cerberus invests 7.4 billion U.S. dollars in this transaction, which is not any form of being paid," he snapped...
...Others, however, strongly support Hume’s greatness on the ground that the force of his personality definitely affected the age in which he lived. It is not a question of the cart before the horse in either case, merely a problem of which came first, the chicken or the egg. In any case, there is much to be said on both sides...
...wants to think about stopping," a prisoner said. According to foreign inmates at the Los Teques prisons, a kilo of cocaine bought for $2,000 in South America can fetch around $25,000 in Europe - some prisoners were paid $4,000 for every kilo they carried, and could cart 10-12 kilos on any given trip. The pay scale makes it a tough profession to quit, even for middle-class twenty-somethings from the industrialized world for whom the price may include doing time at Los Teques...
...Yale defense held Harvard to just two shots.The Crimson suffered a serious blow on offense 10 minutes into the quarter when Carle Stenmark—second on the team in scoring—went down with a blow to his right knee. The senior was taken off on a cart and would not return to the game, although the injury was not deemed serious.Having lost one of its offensive weapons, the Crimson never had any solid scoring opportunities in the quarter.“I just think they were a little more composed in the beginning of the game...