Word: causticity
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...nice to know that Caustic Sen, and hopefully others, feel compelled to at least consider the social implications of a finance career. I only hope that some considering that track will recognize the flimsiness of the humanitarian argument. The moral good of most investment bankers' work is purely incidental. While finance has helped many people and communities, it has also hurt many in the interest of making a few people richer...
...Simple: Goldwater lost, and lost big--so big, in fact, that no one could seriously entertain the idea that he would ever become President or again be leader of his party. Declawed, he returned to Capitol Hill, where as one Senator among 100 he was free to make his caustic observations, to the general amusement of adversaries who not long before considered him deranged. Richard Nixon, he said, was "the most dishonest individual I have ever met in my life." Bob Dole, Goldwater's leader in the Senate in the 1980s, "doesn't have the leadership qualities that...
...dominated the architectural world, from that halcyon year of 1920, when he started publishing his magazine L'Esprit Nouveau, until his death in 1965. He inspired several generations of architects--including this author--not only in Europe but around the world. He was more than a mercurial innovator. Irascible, caustic, Calvinistic, Corbu was modern architecture's conscience...
...course of the inventory, a little before 10:30 a.m., the researchers handled a glass two-liter bottle of the caustic chemical isopropyl chloroformate, an eye and skin irritant, and then replaced it on a top shelf...
Coupland, author of bestsellers Microserfs and Generation X, both acclaimed for their caustic portraits of jaded twentysomethings, presents another foray into the minds of the hollow, the directionless, the lonely and the poorly-adjusted of the MTV generation. Through their offbeat, media-savvy voices, he opens up a philosophical debate on meaning (or lack thereof) in the modern world, on the detrimental effects of technology on society and the environment, and on the need to challenge the established system...