Word: eye
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...pulled Nordstrom stock down too, from nearly $53 a share last May to the mid-$30 range (it closed last Friday at $37.875 a share). That has knocked almost half a billion dollars off the value of the Nordstrom family's 36% stake in the company. "Take your eye off the ball, and it's perilous," says Pete Nordstrom, 35, one of six thirtysomething brothers and cousins who became co-presidents in June 1995, when the fourth generation of family members moved to the head of the 96-year-old company. (The co-presidents report to chairman John Whitacre...
Such mistakes have taken their toll through the departure of some once-loyal customers, particularly those with an eye for the latest trends. Tara Feinstein, 35, a free-lance journalist, recently browsed the aisles of a Nordstrom store in Woodland Hills, California, shopping for clothes for her three-year-old son. She walked out with two $20 T shirts and a sense of disappointment. "I remember being very excited when Nordstrom came to Southern California in the 1980s, and I shopped there exclusively," she recalls. "Now, when I think of Nordstrom, I picture brown and drab...
...sort of rote board game, in which preoccupation with involved scenarios of the life to come became an excuse to measure out one's life in Hail Marys and First Fridays while ignoring real moral concerns. Not only did this baroque stasis "go beyond the knowledge provided in Scripture: 'Eye hath not seen nor ear heard,'" McBrien maintains, but it also essentially "forfeited the game to the critical scientific mind that dismisses it as unbelievable." What some describe as today's apathy or scanting of heaven, he calls health. It allows Catholics "to focus on our life in this world...
...these days, it is often just as metaphor for the concerns of a perfectible secular kingdom of man, as in the debate that started in the Washington Post last month and continued online in Slate over Jesus' statement that "it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God." Peter Wehner, policy director for Jack Kemp's think tank, Empower America, decried the worldliness of Christians who feel they can serve both God and Mammon--resulting in too many people left in poverty...
Clark ended our chat with a friendly smile and twinkling eye. He picked up the Starbucks coffee cup from the table--"Coffee is very important in writing; you have to reach a manic state...