Word: conveyer
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...most children follow the stock market with imaginary portfolios, which are safer than real ones, they can still develop an obsessive need to win. Child psychologist Ava Siegler, author of What Should I Tell the Kids?, says a child's passion for investing must be tempered by parents who convey perspective and values. "If you permit your children to do this," she says, "you have to keep an eye on the downside...
...there that is more ready than we are? What military in the world are we not ready to take on? I think it's dangerous to convey to the rest of the world who looks to us to provide leadership that we have more problems than we are letting on." -Lawrence Korb. oft-quoted assistant secretary of defense for readiness during the Reagan administration...
...hard not to feel that Gore congratulated himself a bit too much for helping to "tear down an old wall of division." Above all, Lieberman's faith tells people that there's something in life more important to him than politics--a message Gore needs badly to convey...
...merely a charisma deficit or a tin ear or a knack for seeming phony even when he's being himself. It's that he must try to dispel at least five familiar myths about himself. Each is based on nuggets of truth, but Gore believes each fails to convey the essence of who he is. Is it possible that the shorthand on a man can be so wrong...
...remembered something they didn't like about the Bush brand, who had actually voted against it, who had the impression that the whole clan lived in a rarefied world where no one knows the price of milk and recessions don't happen. The last thing Bush wanted was to convey any idea that this crown was his for the taking, something he had inherited like a life peerage or a seat on the board. "All the focus groups and polling say the same thing," says an insider. "Any sense of entitlement is a catastrophe...