Word: covetousness
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Openly campaign for the position or look like you covet it. Try to come across as the player who will dive for the loose ball not like the guard who takes a shot every time he touches the ball...
Their work has won the Cleveland Clinic team a feather that any techie would covet in his cap--the attention of Internet giant Google. Cleveland Clinic was one of the search engine's early partners in Google Health, an online EHR service that was launched on May 19. For the hospital, it's an opportunity to expand patients' access to records. "We could only get so big on our own," says Joe Turk, a Web developer and the director of new products on the Cleveland Clinic technology team. "Google Health lets us go national...
...waste a lot of time on my own performance, just three or four takes and keep moving.” Three or four takes? Pretty impressive for a guy with two Oscars and two Golden Globes in his family’s library. However, Washington refuses to covet tiny golden trophies and instead focuses his attention on whatever cinematic project is at hand. When it comes to directing or acting in a film, Washington notes, “I’ve been in this game for a long time. Make the movie—that?...
...accessible. Another defined the future of luxury as one-of-a-kind experiences, like a group of hedge-fund managers who recently paid top dollar to be dropped into the middle of the Amazon. Uniqueness is something, along with quality, that luxury consumers desire universally?who doesn't covet that one-of-a-kind object, whether it be an Herms handbag, a Breguet watch or even a multimillion-dollar Damien Hirst skull? But luxury is also about layering comfort into our turbocharged daily lives. As Coco Chanel once said, "Luxury must be comfortable, otherwise it's not luxury." Nobody...
...thing to covet the resources that may now be accessible in the Arctic. It's another to establish a legal claim to them that others will recognize. Under the provisions of the U.N. Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), a country has exclusive economic rights to the sea's resources within 200 nautical miles (230 miles, 370 km) of its coast. The treaty provides for extending that limit up to 350 nautical miles if a country can prove that its continental shelf extends from the coastline beyond the current limit. That explains the rush by Russia, Denmark...