Word: discussive
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...appointment with my boss to do my annual review. He had allocated an hour for it. Before the meeting, I was to do a self-assessment, which I did. During the meeting, we were to discuss the self-assessment and he was to add his comments...
...approach my boss with even a simple question is to be subjected to incredible rudeness, unmistakable signals that what I need to discuss just doesn't matter-at all. During such encounters, he sighs, loudly and often; gets a slack-jawed, glaze-eyed expression just 15 to 20 seconds into the conversation; makes sounds like "ughh, ughh" to seem engaged; and asks no questions, but inevitably lets you know the "meeting" is over by either picking up documents to read or turning completely around to read e-mails on his PC ... Ironic how such "micro" inequities have such a HUGE...
...there’s one thing the Cambridge arts intelligentsia could take away from Tony Kushner’s visit last Wednesday, it’s that he pulls no punches—whether discussing Israeli politics, the Bush administration, or “Death of a Salesman.”Kushner, who famously authored the Pulitzer, Tony, and Emmy-winning “Angels in America,” as well as the screenplay to “Munich,” visited the Brattle Theatre last Wednesday. The occasion was a public discussion with theatrical director and theorist...
...avoid appearing as if they're buckling to pressure from the other on the nuclear question, and the official spin is that the nuclear issue is a matter for other forums involving other parties such as the Europeans. But if the two sides do manage to sit down and discuss a matter as strategically important as Iraq is to both - and if they do manage to achieve some measure of accord on that issue - it will mark an historic breakthrough in public engagement between the U.S. and the Islamic Republic. And that would certainly go a long way toward transforming...
...Western European allies aren?t ready to discuss economic sanctions. But officials say some diplomats have begun talking quietly to one another and to other countries about where they might squeeze their commercial relations with Iran to force the Islamist regime to suspend its research on uranium enrichment and other techologies essential to constructing a bomb...