Word: eying
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...Peter Jenkin Morgan was watching with a knowing eye on Sept. 15, when some 4,000 Lehman Brothers employees in London's Canary Wharf lost their jobs in a flash - and cut loose with abandon in the business district's pubs. Champagne corks popped, and conversations seemed to be on steroids as everyone wanted to talk. Surrounded by cardboard boxes holding their desk contents, the newly unemployed bankers drank for hours. For a night, at least, Canary Wharf looked like a carnival...
...think Downing Street had also not seen anything like Tony Blair before. When Tony was elected he was 43, the youngest prime minister of the 20th century. We tried to bring up three children, and later a fourth, living in what was essentially a goldfish bowl in the public eye...
...normal times, a French President's call for an overhaul of the world's financial system would cause eye-rolling and dyspepsia among the world's free market purists. But these are not normal times: on the weekend, U.S. President George W. Bush echoed Nicolas Sarkozy's push for an international summit to that end, and on Monday world markets seemed to endorse the initiative with a positive fillip. Though the specific goals, attendees, and even exact date and venue of such a meeting have yet to be determined, the mere agreement by U.S. and European leaders to update...
...that it seemed to matter. "The fact that these are two conservative politicians that business leaders feel they can trust had a lot of impact," says French economist Bernard Maris, who also thinks markets were comforted by the decision to hold the conference in the U.S. - with an eye to historical continuity with the 1944 conference in Bretton Woods, NH, that established the International Monetary Fund. But Maris also notes those same markets - whose boom years relied largely on minimalist regulation - should logically be freaking out at Sarkozy's calls to "moralize" finance and limit pay to the world...
...ideal world, I think skin color would be treated like eye color or like one’s religion, whose differences we tolerate and celebrate and do not rank,” said O’Connor in her address. “But in today’s America, I’m inclined to think that race still matters in painful ways...