Word: ferreted
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...JONATHAN LIVINGSTON FERRET...
...release of Richard Bach's "Jonathan Livingston Seagull" marked a true publishing phenomenon; 32 million copies have been sold in 39 languages. Now Bach is back, working on an unlikely new series of books called "The Ferret Chronicles," starring a band of "intelligent, pacifist ferrets who live and work in a world alongside of their human counterparts." The first two installments, "Rescue Ferrets at Sea" and "Air Ferrets Aloft" will be published on June 25. Will his readers find skunks' furry first cousins as appealing as seagulls? Stay tuned...
...likely to be. (If you have a chance to confer with the assistant in advance, of course—and we all like to be called “assistants,” not “graders”—you may be able to ferret out one or two cosmic assumptions of his own; seeing them in your bluebook, he can only applaud your uncommon perception. For example, while most graders are politically unconcerned, not all are agnostic. This is an older generation, recall. Some may be tired of St. Augustine flattened by a phrase...
...same, to do what smart marketers do, to ferret out our deepest desires--sex! power! beer!--or to bond us to brand names with the kind of tribal loyalty you ordinarily find only in the Balkans, is no easy business. It's art and science, and the ingenuity it requires is something to admire. The six people we profile in this chapter of our Innovators series have taken up the tools of anthropology, mathematics and virtual reality. No subatomic particle, no stretch of the human genome has been studied as closely as you, dear 21st century consumer. And our Innovators...
...likely to be. (If you have a chance to confer with the assistant in advance, of course—and we all like to be called “assistants,” not “graders”—you may be able to ferret out one or two cosmic assumptions of his own; seeing them in your bluebook, he can only applaud your uncommon perception. For example, while most graders are politically unconcerned, not all are agnostic. This is an older generation, recall. Some may be tired of St. Augustine flattened by a phrase...