Word: credo
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...that houses the Observer and the Guardian hemorrhaging ?36.8 million ($60.3 million), compared with a loss of ?26.4 million ($43.2 million) a year earlier, on turnover of ?253.6 million ($415.3 million) - the idea of effectively killing the Observer to protect the Guardian arguably chimed with the Scott Trust's credo. (Read "How to Save Your Newspaper...
...they pretend to be adults: soldiers, spacemen, cops and robbers or, for the more precocious, doctors and nurses. The theme is, Be what you want to be. Then when they grow up, go to Hollywood and make movies, they often create characters that are emotional adolescents, infants, kids. The credo of so many action films and comedies is, Be what you used to be or what you still, secretly, are. This tendency could be the film industry's wise acknowledgment that inside every adult is a backward child ruled by fears and cravings. Or it could just be that movie...
...sexual assault were likely just that, rather than intimate exchanges that went on too long or signals that were more mixed than we might have hoped. The mentality in which we blindly protect the women in our lives from supposed male predators is not compatible with our can-do credo, through which we encourage the same women to grab life by the horns, even in the realm of sexual risk-taking. What we need in the gender-equality debate is not another half-assed website, but instead a campaign that can effectively adjust to our times...
...lived through the years of the Great Depression, and resourcefulness meant frugality. Benjamin Franklin’s famous words “A penny saved is a penny earned” was her personal credo. Even several years after her death, she still receives coupons for Victoria’s Secret mailed to our address (who knew...
Maurice (Hank) Greenberg has said that all he ever wanted in life was "an unfair advantage," an insurance man's credo that propelled American International Group into a global powerhouse. Greenberg grew up with the now infamous company, becoming a world business power who dined with heads of state and influenced international trade policy - until risk caught up to him four years ago. An accounting scandal forced him to step down from his beloved company...