Word: discreeter
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...willing," he said wistfully. Usually, I'm reluctant to admit my decision, as people tend to exclaim "how interesting!" with faux cheer for my medieval birthing plans. My friends cannot resist trying to convince me to get sliced open. They cheerfully tug up their shirts, and flash me their discreet little scars, always pointing out how they fall under the bikini line...
...made discreet inquiries into whether student groups could be exempt,” Associate Dean of the College Judith H. Kidd said...
...Olmert has chosen Ofer Deker, an Arabic-speaking former deputy head of Shin Beit, the Israeli equivalent of the FBI, to handle the discreet bargaining. Israel is also contacting all possible mediators, including the United Nations, Egypt, France, Germany and Qatar - anyone who is willing and able to open up lines of communication with the two groups behind the kidnapping. Israeli and Arab newspapers are full of often contradictory reports about possible terms for the hostages' release. The latest, as yet unconfirmed, claims that Gilad Shalit, the 18-year-old soldier seized by Palestinian militants, will soon be freed through...
...Western content - in about two days the whole city knew exactly why. The story went like this: the son of a prominent regime-connected ayatullah had recently begun importing small, laptop-size satellite dishes. If the government rounded up the ungainly, rooftop dishes, and flooded the market with the discreet little one, everyone would be forced to buy the ayatullah's son's dishes. This connection between regime piety and corrupt wealth dominates how Iranians see the world - the little events that transpire in their daily lives, from bread shortages to satellite raids...
...interview questions, Giordano and her colleagues could draw on the wisdom of generations of sociologists, whose calling in life is to take messy, intimate personal experiences and social attitudes and turn them into discreet, orderly, crunchable numbers. A question designed to gauge how attached a teen is to his or her partner might offer choices such as "I would rather be with X than anyone else," "I am very attracted to X," "X always seems to be on my mind" and so on. The researchers then used the responses to analyze each subject's feelings about his or her love...