Word: everydayness
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...play each other almost everyday,” Denenberg said, “so it’s just a matter of who plays a little better that particular...
That sort of talk gives heartburn to E.U. officials and statisticians across Europe because they say it's largely unfounded. Indeed, since 2002, inflation has been rising faster in Britain, which kept its own currency, than in countries that switched to the euro. True, the cost of some everyday items has gone up, at times quite sharply. The German statistics office, for example, has calculated that, since 2000, the price of a man's haircut has risen 7%, a breakfast roll is up 13% while tram tickets are 17% more costly. In France, a cup of coffee...
Their conclusions tend to be quite similar. Public perceptions of the impact of the euro were skewed, they argue, because people noticed the rise in the cost of everyday items such as coffee and vegetables more than they noticed the declining costs of telephone calls, refrigerators and other less frequently purchased items. That in turn confirmed pre-euro anxieties that the new currency could be inflationary. Extensive media coverage of price rises didn't help. Moreover, some people may have simply not related their spending to what they were earning, and so made mistakes...
...wonder after reading “Arlington Park” whether the author, Rachel Cusk, is a penetrating analyst of human psychology—or just an embittered feminist.Whichever category Cusk falls into, her newest novel is certainly perceptive. It is a surprisingly philosophical book in which everyday characters in an everyday setting hint at being deeply symbolic—though it’s difficult to discern what they’re supposed to symbolize.“Arlington Park” follows the lives of five young British housewives through the course of one rainy day and culminates...
...went to the first lectures and I realized how applicable it can be to my everyday life,” Harris says. “It’s my favorite class, in part because it does apply to everyday life...