Word: fined
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...perch on the 62nd floor of the U.S. Steel building--a floor that sat empty for seven years. "What made Pittsburgh great is exporting the steel that it made, and the money came back," says Jeffrey Romoff. Understand, Romoff does not work for U.S. Steel, which has been doing fine, mind you. Instead, he's the CEO of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC), the thriving $7 billion health-care conglomerate that occupies some of the top floors of the building and whose logo now glows in the night...
African Americans have had to cope with disappointment since the days of slavery. With that come certain defense mechanisms, ways of guarding ourselves against disappointment. Frankly, I was perfectly fine with the idea of never seeing a black President in my lifetime. When Obama entered the race, any expectations we had were negative. We started to see the light in Iowa, but even as his support became a popular movement, there was always a kind of disbelief in the idea that America would really vote for a black man. We'd like to be wrong, but we think...
...what really makes the film are Maher’s interviews with the religious elite, including Dr. Jeremiah Cummings, a bling-blinging sugar daddy of a preacher who defends his wealth by citing Jesus’ possession of “fine linen.” Another notable subject is Ken Ham, president of the creationist group Answers In Genesis, whose bold statement, “If you believe in evolution, you’d have to believe women came from ape-women,” clearly puts an end to evolutionary theory. There’s also Jos?...
...Office for the Arts are already packed with a peculiar crowd by 8 p.m., when the Harvard Ballroom Dance Team swing lesson is scheduled to begin. Local community members of every age—Baby Boomer couples looking to spice up married life, graduate students fine-tuning their skillz on the dance floor, and a motley of others—mingle with students as we wait awkwardly for the previous class to vacate the room...
...when you have an addiction, you struggle with it. But people have taken his tendency to have affairs as this expression of bad character, of an anti-social character; he's a liar, he's a cheater, he's a faker. But by every measure, he has a fine character, a fundamentally altruistic personality...