Word: communion
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Last meal: Holy Communion...
...Global Business Network, a think tank, says that in the pre-quant days, Wall Street was patriarchal, intuitive, much more related to the world as it was. But hard-core quants, he complains across the generation gap, "are almost idiots savants with numbers . . . There is an almost prayerful communion with the computer. They're intense and operate to a rhythm. If you ask them a question, they turn and their eyes are glazed, coming out of whatever cyberspace they are in." In this trance, he says, "they're not really in a world of other people. They think they...
...from its worldwide payroll over the next 14 months, 3,000 salaried employees agreed to mild concessions. They would accept Christmas bonuses at 60% of a month's wages, instead of 100%, and give up a cornucopia of fringe benefits such as reimbursement for a child's first Communion outfit. But getting real sacrifice is not so easy. To address the needs of an aging population, Kohl sought to finance long-term nursing care by dropping up to six days of the sick pay workers get. The idea provoked a minicrisis in his coalition, forcing him to back...
CHRIS KNOX Meat CD (Communion) The reissues just don't let up: this week, Chris Knox, who's spent the last decadeplus in his native New Zealand as half of Tall Dwarfs, the cruelest-minded, most inventive, funniest, and possibly the most interesting duo on the 80s-90s global rockscape. (Before that, Knox fronted NZ's premier punk bands, the Enemy and Toy Love.) Meat contains most of his two solo albums, Seizure and Croaker--solo records in the literal sense, since there's no backing band and no studio musicians. Instead, it's Chris Knox singing, playing his loud...
Battlefield is the story of one man's communion with the land and with history. The book begins with Svenson's purchase of a forty acre farm at Cross Keys in the mid 1980s. Svenson, a professional artist, bought this rural plot as a place where he could regenerate himself and provide a home for his wife and two children. The land itself and its history did not much interest him at first. But when Svenson realizes that the focus of the Battle of Cross Keys took place on his 40 acres, what began as a casual interest...