Word: dealing
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...capable of being very direct, and that is a very unusual combination,” Taylor said. “She makes people cope with whatever needs to be dealt with. She will not hide the problem, and she will not sugar-coat it. She’ll deal with them...
...Understanding and communicating with each other is the most important,” Abuelaish told the group of Muslim, Jewish, Arab, and Palestinian undergraduate and graduate students at Harvard Hillel. “Our problem is lack of communication. We must listen and deal with each other, and realize in the end that others are similar...
...fact, Ian makes about as much as he did when he was teaching—around $50,000 a year. But there’s certainly a great deal less stress than before. The self-professed “night owl” likes that he can stay up until five a.m. and sleep in until noon. Ian suffers from mild carpal-tunnel syndrome, but that doesn’t stop him from playing five or six days a week, occasionally eight hours in a day. He usually has no more than 10 tables open (He has a friend with...
...friend offers you a deal in which for every coin flip that ends in heads, he gives you $11, and for every tails, you give him $10 dollars. If you had $1,000 in your bankroll, you would be foolish not to take up the deal. The first 10 tosses might not generate any heads, leaving you $100 down—but in the larger scope of things, in a world attuned to the rules of probability, you will leave the game having gained a profit. But now, say the stakes are upped and instead of $11, your friend...
...must be engaged with seriously, these schoolyard antics on the part of both Fox and the White House neither are politically expedient nor do they move debate forward. The White House should take Fox’s deliberate deceptions seriously, but there are more intelligent ways to deal with lies than picking a fight that can’t be won at a reasonable cost. For now, the focus should be on what is being said, not who is saying it. People barely understand health-care reform as it stands, and entering the fray with fists flailing and insults flying...