Word: considerable
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A graduate of Oxford college and a loyal patriot, Bond is the paragon of thoughtful manliness, which is not always an oxymoron. He is intelligent but not reflective, independent (the "00" in "007" represents a license to kill) but not reckless, reliable but not predictable. Consider, by contrast, the brutish...
2. "When we consider total compensation--benefits as well as wages--even those 2,000 employees are paid at least $10 per hour."
Consider that the $10 per hour living wage adopted by the Cambridge City Council last spring was designed to apply to workers who also received benefits. Even with benefits, these workers still required at least $10 per hour to meet their families' needs. A living wage is designed to cover...
Consider Iowa attorney general Tom Miller, a Democrat and one of the A.G.s suing Microsoft. The company has hired two of his best friends, both former legislators. "They were in to see me once or twice" about the lawsuit, Miller says, and he's also heard from two former state...
Yet it took intervention from Illinois' Republican Governor George H. Ryan and state school superintendent Glenn W. McGee to get the board to reduce the expulsions from two years to one and to let the youths enroll in an alternative-education program. The board has not agreed to McGee's...