Word: embarkment
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...listening. What matters is that people see you as you pretend to listen. This is not the good-faith tactic of a candidate in a democracy. In an illuminating coincidence, Hillary Clinton set off on her "listening tour" the same week that Queen Elizabeth decided to embark on a "meet the people" tour of her own. Like Mrs. Clinton, the Queen sipped tea with ordinary folk as her motorcade hummed outside, waiting to return her to her life of splendid isolation. Like Mrs. Clinton she got a taste of life as her subjects lead it. The Queen was doing what...
...game the Fed. For weeks on end I heard talking head after talking head spouting that the Federal Reserve Board was about to embark on a string of tightenings to cool down the economy. The Fed watchers had it all figured out. Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan had repeatedly leaked that the rollicking days of a strong economy were over. He was going to put the brakes on the longest peacetime advance with a series of rapid-fire interest-rate hikes that would send the stock market into a tizzy...
After this summer's Lilith tour, McLachlan plans to take a break for a year or two to recharge her batteries at home near Vancouver and embark on a trek across India with her husband, drummer Ashwin Sood. "It makes sense to call this the last Lilith," she says. "It's incredibly rewarding to be part of something that is gaining women recognition, but it's also a huge amount of work." And too, she wants to devote time to another kind of creativity. "Some of us in our 30s want to have children, and we all realize that...
Weinstein congratulated his class, who he said "is ready to embark on careers in any field--from investment to banking...
Alums clamored for details, leading Wilson to embark on a month-long, 10-city whirlwind tour in October to visit Radcliffe graduates nationwide and hear their suggestions for the future. During the sparsely attended gatherings, Wilson offered little information regarding Radcliffe's internal talks...