Word: fitful
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...early February, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, as part of his bank fix, said he will "stress-test" the nation's largest financial firms to find out which ones are fit and which ones are flatlining, and then apply the appropriate therapy - which we assume means anything from injecting capital to pulling the plug. By using a medical term, Geithner gave the impression that he had some fiscal electrocardiograph that could be strapped to banks to chart the strength of their accounts. But when it comes to a bank checkup, the actual test is far less scientific. (Read "Geithner's Challenge...
Restaurants are caught in a fit of ardent hospitality, especially around Wall Street: Trinity Place offers $3 drinks at happy hour any day the market goes down, with the slogan "Market tanked? Get tanked!"--which ensures a lively crowd for the closing bell. The "21" Club has decided that men no longer need to wear ties, so long as they bring their wallets. Food itself is friendlier: you notice more comfort food, a truce between chef and patron that is easier to enjoy now that you can get a table practically anywhere. And tap water is fine, thanks. New York...
...Sexuality would come into existence, Roosevelt had all the characteristics of a concentrator. His senior thesis eschewed the chauvinistic currents of his Harvard masters and mates—he wrote about gender equality, even proposing that women keep their own names in marriage.While Teddy may have never quite fit in, his nephew Franklin D. Roosevelt felt right at home at Harvard. FDR was the handsome and charming captain of the freshman football squad in addition to being a member of the Fly Club, the Hasty Pudding Club and the president of The Harvard Crimson. In class he consistently earned...
...very, very rough pictures of songs. Tunes, bits and pieces of things that I think of, that kind of thing. I'll have hundreds of songs on my tapes and then I take 20 or 30 of those into the big studio to record. Of those, the songs that fit together the best are the one that make it on the record. Basically I look for songs that I can thread together in some...
...deadly arrogance. With the cities emptied and the population under Khmer Rouge control, Pol Pot's means of implementation was to begin exterminating anyone who didn't fit this new ideal. He declared that he was turning Cambodia - now renamed the Democratic Republic of Kampuchea - back to "Year Zero," and intellectuals, businessmen, Buddhists and foreigners were all purged. "What is rotten must be removed," read a popular Khmer Rouge slogan at the time, and remove they did, often by execution but sometimes simply by working people to death in the fields...