Word: devil
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...chance to abandon politics and take a job as head of a foundation: "The job offered much-needed financial security, a point Michelle was pushing. This was also a pattern in their marriage - she playing the role of the industrious, paycheck-retrieving ant, he the role of the devil-may-car grasshopper. Unafraid of plastic, he had a habit of putting professional expenses on his credit card and neglecting to file for reimbursement...
...lies in its sex scenes, of which there were many. I’m pretty sure Kathleen—that’s the first nun-witch—sleeps with every male character in the film, and her sister Margaret added two female characters—and the devil incarnate—to their final tally. (To quote a friend, “Those nuns got mad ’sploited.”) These uncomfortable encounters included shaky camerawork as the handheld camcorder filming the scene zoomed in and out unexpectedly. But the highlight of each scene...
...forests in the southeastern reaches of Madagascar that this animal calls home, there is nowhere else it can go. It will be lost. That story is being repeated throughout much of the world, where mammals like the Iberian Lynx, the Pere David's Deer in China and the Tasmanian Devil are all listed as threatened or worse on the IUCN's annual Red List of endangered species...
...sitting on the bench, the Crazies would taunt him, chanting, “in-Hale, ex-Hale.” Creative and devilish. So devilish.Then, in 1984, Maryland’s Herman Veal was accused of sexually assaulting a fellow student. In the game at Cameron Indoor, the Blue Devil women collectively threw 1000 pairs of panties onto the court while yelling a collection of cheers I can’t print—although I’d love to. And Duke isn’t even a big school. It’s a private college known more...
Carroll and Mui believe CEOs should create a corporate atmosphere that encourages challenge and discourages yes-men. It may even pay to designate a person to play devil's advocate--an official skeptic. The authors believe strongly that inside doubts deserve to be aired before outside financial disaster strikes. They should be getting busy now with a revision to include the epic failures currently taking place in the financial system...