Word: commonnesses
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...common problem. You book a trip, fail to pick up a phrase book and before you know it you're shaking hands, toasting - or wildly gesticulating - in your destination, wishing you had mastered just a couple of phrases of the local language. Since 2005, travelers on selected flights of Singapore Airlines, Lufthansa and half a dozen other carriers have been avoiding this problem with Berlitz World Traveler courses, available on personal video screens. Now other airlines are following suit - this year, Continental, KLM and Air France began offering the onboard language-tuition program, which teaches the basics...
...financial impact on business. Julie Gorte, a vice president for the mutual fund Pax World, points out that nearly half of the top-100 companies in the S&P 500 reported that their earnings had been affected by Hurricane Katrina--the kind of superstorm scientists believe will become more common as the globe warms. And as Washington finally begins to consider legislation that would cap greenhouse-gas emissions, companies that produce lots of carbon dioxide could be forced to purchase costly carbon offsets to meet the new regulations. These are material financial risks, the same as high oil prices...
...that there are a number of students on this campus who think that FemSex is unnecessary, but what class or organization isn’t? Extracurriculars aren’t built out of necessity; they are created out of desires—to do what we love, to find common ground, to help others. If a student doesn’t like it, she doesn’t have to take it, but the need for it on this campus is no lesser because it?...
...tipping, common in restaurants, hotels, and strip clubs (among other places), is pervasive in America. But elsewhere it is often unheard-of. In some countries, tacking on 15 percent to a bill is considered an oddly Yankee convention, done only by tourists...
...Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan noted that the vote - which gives the government the authority to determine the "scope, limits and duration" of any operation - does not necessarily mean an incursion is imminent. Turkey, he said, "will act with common sense and determination when necessary and when the time is ripe...