Word: envious
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...seniors start to file out, I cannot help but feel a little envious. But staying later is just part of the job description for the juniors. I look through a few portfolios of my team’s long-term projects and finish a lenghty company evaluation that I started yesterday...
...making sense of the rubble left from the Israeli bombardment; they are already doing an impressive job cleaning it up. After weeks in hiding or living as refugees, the Party of God has taken charge of the reconstruction of Lebanon with enough speed and organization to make any government envious. Almost as soon as the cease-fire went into effect on Monday, Hizballah leader Hassan Nasrallah went on television to promise that all Lebanese whose homes were damaged or destroyed would receive at least $10,000 for a year's worth of rent, and during that time Hizballah would repair...
...massive quantities of investment and booming low-cost exports. "The threat of China is doing some good," O'Neill said. He pointed out that India has been changing its domestic rules in a bid to attract more foreign investment, a tactic which he labels "a direct product of being envious of how much investment China is getting." The one caveat: while he expects the Chinese economy to grow by a factor of 20 between now and 2050, India will be 50 times bigger - but will still lose...
...side are the protester-arsonists, many if not most of them Muslim, whom the Interior Minister called racaille (rabble)--young, restless, violent, vibrant, angry, jobless, envious and fecund. And on the other side is an aged and exhausted civilization, the hollowed-out core of European Christendom, static, aging, contented, coddled, passive and literally without faith. Who would you think will...
...Final clubs are targets for those who are envious of not belonging or for those seldom few who harbor objections to elitism on moral principles. From this envy and disdain, stereotypes have emanated widely. But, at least for Isis, some of the worst stereotypes of Harvard’s private social organizations seem to be proved true—the punch book is an extravaganza of vapidity, cattiness, self-praise, and insecurity...