Word: decentering
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...hasty decisions. We said outright that it was an adventurist sham. They can't even have their equipment moved to the place on time. But the weather in the area will get prohibitive within a couple of weeks. The whole thing is doomed to fail. I can't find decent words to describe all this. I can only suspect that they never intended to raise the Kursk...
...Basically, though, online critics are votaries, trainspotters, collectors of information. But after amassing all the data, some sorting is required. Not just decent films from bad ones - an opinion is the easiest, and least crucial, part of a review - but the old from the faux new, the subtle from the snazzy. Good critics do that, and more: they challenge and surprise with each sentence, turns a review into a cultural event. Critics shouldn?t try making the film they review a must-see; they should make their writing a must-read...
...buying any of it. Last week the bond market began, in spurts, to show signs of pessimism again, bidding down long-term rates in expectation that a recovery - and inflation - was a long way off. Stocks, after trying mightily to find their footing in a week of decent economic numbers and unsurprisingly dismal earnings news, stumbled anew on Friday. And if you think the Fed?s 25 basis points wasn?t discounted about a month ago, well, go ahead and load up on equities before 2:15 p.m. Tuesday. See where it gets...
...still a July number, which will make it possible for Wall Street to continue to wait for those rebate checks to lift all our boats. Wal-Mart and Home Depot should both deliver good news, but we knew they would, and most Wall Street forecasters expect Rummy to make decent progress with the Russians by explaining the urgent post-Cold-War need for the world?s lone superpower to deploy a massive network of space-based weaponry against Osama bin Laden...
...public] schools are lousy and I pay a lot of money to send my girls to a private school to get a decent education,” John says...