Word: discounting
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This is a big and ambitious book whose events span a century, and right at the beginning Hijuelos announces his intention to take his time telling it. "A lot of people wrongly discount the quality of photographs produced by the type of camera I use," Nelson O'Brien tells his son Emilio in the quote that opens the book. "But this apparatus, in my opinion, captures not only the superficial qualities of its subjects but also, because of the time it takes to properly collect light, their feelings, as they settle on the subjects' expressions; sadness and joy and worry...
...this year's group of top Harvard officials, perhaps not as hardened by experience, did not so easily discount the potential effects of student demands. In fact, the Knowles-Rudenstine-Green troika was eager to acknowledge the validity of student concerns...
...even $10. Away from the floodlit Capitol dome, he said quietly, "We are standing on the edge of an abyss. It's scary. Unless we can find some basis for a rational discussion, we could lose it all." He held out hope that Clinton could adopt a discount rate for the smaller ranchers...
...have submitted a proposal to try to make Earthwatch more accessible to college students by offering a discount rate and postering on campuses," he said. "Two weeks in the field is worth a semester in the class room...
...show is especially worth seeing on the $5 student night--but this year, the discount night was poorly scheduled for the second night...