Word: curiousity
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...those seeking more intangible signs, the mood outside the exchange could be an omen that some investors are still hanging in. The tourists there certainly had no idea what was up or what was down. Swiss tourists Luca Barmettler and Hodel Ramona, on holiday for the past week, were curious when asked about recent market volatility. They asked if the U.S.'s $700 billion bailout plan had passed. When told it had, Luca was almost Zenlike about the future. Good things take time, he said. "Everything bad happens fast." If the tourists are indicators, Wall Street symbols, at least, appear...
...empathic person in the room. These are traits that are completely independent of each other. That's like being both the smartest person in a room as well as the tallest. What are the odds of that? With Clinton, you have someone who is bright, energetic, empathic, extroverted, and curious. It's like a quintuple threat...
With the bubble burst, Walton and Butler assume that Prosperity congregants have taken a disproportionate hit, and they are curious as to how their churches will respond. Butler thinks some of the flashier ministries will shrink along with their congregants' fortunes. Says Walton: "You would think that the current economic conditions would undercut their theology." But he predicts they will persevere, since God's earthly largesse is just as attractive when one is behind the economic eight ball...
After hours of driving one day, we stopped on a bridge over the Tigris for a car wash, where masked youths, looking like bandits, had drawn water out of the cloudy current by hose. They seemed friendly enough, but as our stationary convoy began attracting curious eyes, our bodyguards said it was time to move. "We are in the war," Sami reminded us, his grin a mix of humor and utter seriousness in the rearview mirror. In a second, we were off again, dust flying, as the muffled voice of the lead driver came in over the radios...
...went to the surrounding sights, like the Forbidden City and the Great Wall, which were amazing. But of course the Olympics had taken over the city, so our experience was very Games-oriented. I’d be curious to see what Beijing is like post-Olympics...