Word: copouts
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...When the storm was still just a threatening cloud, chef Barber - who is also the center's creative director - took me down from Stone Barns' headquarters to its 23,000-sq.-ft. greenhouse. Wait a second: a greenhouse? Isn't that a copout? What about farm-to-table...
...copout to have a greenhouse if you're growing, say, tomatoes and mangoes here in Westchester County in the middle of winter, because you're pumping fossil fuel in to heat your greenhouse so you can do it,? Barber told me. ?But we're not doing that... We're pumping a little bit of fossil fuel in, but we're growing for the most part hearty winter greens, root vegetables and salad greens...
...Plenty of details certainly remain, but this much is certain: putting up the safety net is only a matter of good organization. We have more money and more medical know-how than any group at any time, anywhere in the world. Rosa made me realize what a copout I accept; how cowardly it is to throw up hands and and complain about the "system". But don't feel too bad for her. We actually did get her in to have her wrist fixed - for free - eventually. It took a few tricks that I'm not about to reveal...
...meetings.“The longer the process runs, the higher the expectations for some breakthrough innovation in curricular structure or approaches to learning...There’s a danger that something that stays relatively close to the existing organization will be seen as a kind of wishy-washy copout,” Gordon says. But, he adds, “That’s not a reason not to do it if it makes sense.”Jayne Professor of Government and Professor of African and African American Studies Jennifer L. Hochschild says faculty and students have high...
...underqualified actor with an overinflated ego, may be the state's next Governor but that the recall election is happening at all [Aug. 18-25]. Both political parties have abdicated their responsibility to come up with tough solutions to the state's budget deficit, opting instead for the political copout of recalling Gray Davis. A recall is supposed to be an emergency measure to allow voters to remove corrupt officials. In California it is being subverted to remove an unpopular Governor. I fear this precedent may cause recalls in other states and have a paralyzing effect on the ability...