Word: gatherered
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...lethal dose of barbiturates--in his Ashland, Ore., condominium. And at some point in the next few months, when terminal lung cancer has spread to his liver or brain, when his breath is short and he feels too sick to eat or sleep, he will pick a day to gather close friends and family about him. He will give away his belongings and say his goodbyes. "It will be a celebration of life," Mason predicts. "I'd like to hear Satchmo singing What a Wonderful World." When he actually swallows the potion, he expects to slip into unconsciousness...
...soon became apparent that they knew a lot. A "controller" calling himself Grzelak had been trailing her for months, bugging her home and workplace to gather intimate details of her life. "I was shocked at how much they knew," she says. "All the time I was thinking, 'What is their source?'" She agreed to talk, she says, because she feared the alternative was prison. She admits she rambled on about her work and her personal life, but says she recounted only what she thought were "things that they already knew." In the end, she says, Grzelak suggested she collaborate...
...China becomes more appealing. "They're interested in doing deals, but they don't have a good composite view of what the rest of the business world is thinking and doing there," says Chao, 50, who speaks Mandarin and French and travels to China once a month to gather such intelligence. "We add value by supplying the local knowledge and expertise they require...
...everybody else weren’t doing the same thing. We wouldn’t—well, at least my roommate wouldn’t—drink Guinness, unless spurred to do so by a vague feeling of celebration. There is a deeply human compulsion to gather and to celebrate; in our more or less secular society, it has insufficient outlet. At Harvard, where we are frequently trapped by our self-involvement, the problem is particularly acute. Good parties and concerts sometimes crystallize into a sort of communal joy, but the phenomenon is rare. On St. Patrick?...
...China becomes more appealing. "They're interested in doing deals, but they don't have a good composite view of what the rest of the business world is thinking and doing there," says Chao, 50, who speaks Mandarin and French and travels to China once a month to gather such intelligence. "We add value by supplying the local knowledge and expertise they require...