Word: givees
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Weighing a Plan in Afghanistan In "Give It Time," Peter Bergen downplays a main requirement for nation-building: significant support from the population [Oct. 12]. He also admits that the Afghan army is still weak. After eight years, when does he expect that it will have the strength and willingness to combat the insurgents - in 10 years, or 20 years? Those of us who served in Vietnam could readily see the same lack of willingness in the South Vietnamese as they mostly refused to put their lives on the line in their war against the North. If the government...
Yakuza gang bosses in Japan give interviews on TV, dine openly with politicians and traditionally hand out business cards, so everyone knows how to find them. Roughly 40,000 mobsters belong to the Yamaguchi-gumi alone. Everybody knows that the yakuza get money from bars and restaurants, construction companies, even private-detective agencies. But these days some of their principal businesses include securities trading and management consulting. They are increasingly, Jake Adelstein tells us in his gripping descent into the underworld, Tokyo Vice, like bankers "with guns...
...started with a simple question: "If you had unlimited resources, what would you give your patients?" For Rebecca Onie, who asked this of physicians during her weekly visits to Boston Medical Center as a Harvard sophomore, the answers were illuminating. "I have a kid who comes in with an ear infection, and I prescribe antibiotics," says Onie, paraphrasing one of the doctors. "Meanwhile, the real issue is that there's no food at home, or the family is living in a car." It is that connection between health and poverty, all too often unaddressed, that pushed Onie to found Project...
...give tax credits to everybody, because somebody's gotta pay for them. We have targeted six sectors: homeland security, alternative energy, advanced manufacturing, life sciences, tourism and film. Film is an area associated with keeping young people here, with dynamism...
...like, and, well, eel-like. (Yeah. Like Flotsam and Jetsam in The Little Mermaid. Eeeew.) But, given the very reasonable price and a good excuse to enjoy an evening out at somewhere other than Oggi, the Upper Crust, or, God forbid, the Kong, FlyBy is willing to consider and give...