Word: fronting
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...first course at dinner," says Mrs. Weise-King. Still in their bridal attire, the couple whipped out their iPhones - they'd done a test run ahead of time and determined that they had to use the web browser and not the simple iPhone app - and switched status in front of bemused wedding guests. (They also uploaded a photo.) Throughout the rest of the night, Weise-King would occasionally glance down at her Facebook profile, "the way I'd glance at my ring when I first got engaged." Their status has not changed since...
...don’t remember hearing much after that. I was so excited,” he said, adding that his high school did not even have a quiz bowl team. “It took all I had to not to scream like a moron in front of everyone...
...Swimming in Inya Lake near Suu Kyi's home is banned, and the opposition leader is rarely allowed any visitors, apart from her doctor. Roadblocks often discourage passersby and people who do manage to get near the front gate are usually photographed by security personnel. No previous successful attempt of someone sneaking into her house from the lake has ever been reported...
There is always hope for more bad news and battles between the government and large banks that would bring the issues back to the front pages of the press. The losses from credit cards, commercial real estate, corporate loans, and derivatives may be substantially greater than the government could have ever imagined. Banks could face hundreds of billions of dollars in additional write-offs. The government and bankers did not see the crisis that is just passing coming. They almost certainly won't see the next...
...activity, or play a game of beer pong on a Tuesday night, you open yourself up to the possibility of not succeeding. Maybe you get smacked with the devilish B-/C+ on that paper, or forget your lines at the play tryout and feel like a doofus in front of some stylish actor-types, or worse, lose so bad at pong that you have to take a naked lap through Mather courtyard.Bad news bears, right? Well I’m here to say this. Maybe not bad news bears. Maybe okay news bears. You wanna know why? Because failure...