Word: familiar
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
What inspired you to write a book about debt? We put it together about 3 years ago when none of this meltdown was happening yet, and what interested me in the subject was several things. Debt is a motif in 19th century literature, with which I'm quite familiar. The second thing was all the debt ads that were suddenly on the subway. They suddenly were appearing everywhere. They hadn't been there before, so it inspires one to wonder why there are suddenly so many organizations that are making their living by helping people get out of debt. That...
...Silicon Valley legend is a familiar one: A few guys tooling around in a garage come up with a killer app. The innovators become entrepreneurs with the help of venture capital and launch their product to immediate acclaim. Their company goes public, and they're all instant zillionaires. Whoa, cautions Kawasaki, a Valley legend himself. It ain't that easy. "Flailing, grinding, thrashing, and getting lucky are why companies succeed," he says. And why entrepreneurial wannabes...
...conference held by speakerphone in an office high over Center City Philadelphia, members of the election watchdog group The Committee of 70 discussed their main worry this busy Election Day: running out of paper ballots. Word was coming in from all over the area that poll workers were not familiar with a federal court decision last week requiring precincts to make paper ballots available in the case of a machine breakdown. Worse, there were only about 100 paper ballots pre-set at each precinct, so places with serious machine problems in the morning faced running...
...place finish in the A division. “We had some very crazy wind which I think intimidated the other teams,” Watson said. “Both Emily [Lambert] and I, we weren’t intimidated by it, and we took advantage of our familiar waters and sailed well.”The pair placed outside of the top ten just once in 11 races, and recorded five top-three finishes. Their combined 54 points placed them 16 points ahead of the second-place Bulldogs.Meanwhile, freshman Lambert continued her successful rookie campaign by skippering Harvard...
...Motley’s spirits as he energetically announces our arrival in Manchester, N.H. If ever there were a group of people that exhibits hope, it’s Motley and his Harvard Republicans. As members of the College’s tiny political minority, they are all too familiar with the underdog status of their candidate’s campaign...