Word: enjoys
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...bother to settle in the U.S.? For the same reason that investment bankers from New Jersey like London--because the two nations have so much in common. Britain and the U.S. are the most messy, undeferential, schlocky societies on earth, places that like making a fast buck, that enjoy celebrity precisely because it is fleeting. Such characteristics may not be the conventional stuff of shared language and wartime alliance that are supposed to bind the two nations together, but these days they are a much stronger glue. Victoria: Welcome. You're going to feel right at home...
...provision Kravis and others are lobbying to save is spectacularly unfair. These billionaires enjoy a lower tax rate than the people who clean their toilets. Oh, sure, arguments can be made for this. These arguments usually turn on the metaphysical distinction between ordinary income and capital gains. And there are counterarguments challenging this artificial distinction, in general or in this particular case...
...find their role models in the likes of Brooke (from The Bold and Beautiful), Ally McBeal and Rachel from Friends rather than simply following the paths of their mothers and grandmothers. Most importantly, teenage and twentysomething Indian women want the same independence as their television heroines appear to enjoy, and have begun questioning the idea of marriage, which in India has traditionally occurred at a far younger age than in the West. Some, especially in the more Western-oriented southern Indian cities of Bangalore and Chennai, even trying live-in relationships. Of course, much of India remains rural and poor...
...court's ruling said that "such frequent use" of vaffanculo and other merely vulgar expressions has created a kind of "inflation" where they have lost their original obscene and/or overtly hostile significance, even while "impoverishing language and manners." The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that "obscene" speech does not enjoy First Amendment protection, and may in certain cases be criminal to express. Still, at least one of the nine U.S. justices, Sicilian-American Antonin Scalia, has some personal experience to work from. Last year when a reporter asked what he had to say to his critics, the brilliant judge responded...
...favorite professional athlete in sport today? That's a great question. I enjoy watching [New England Patriots quarterback] Tom Brady a lot. With him coming out of college and being an underdog--no one giving him a chance--what he has become as a professional athlete has exceeded expectations and more. And with him, it's definitely all about the fourth quarter...