Word: golden
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...version: slippery, noisy, awkward, uncomfortable. "The yuck factor was a problem," Mitchell Warren, executive director of the AIDS Vaccine Advocacy Coalition, told the New York Times last year about the device's failure to catch on. Then there's the stigma associated with buying condoms, a topic even The Golden Girls once addressed...
...These should have been the golden years for climate change activists, who count scores of Nobel scientists, countless Hollywood celebrities, and the entire Third World among their allies. So many books, so many films, so many conferences and papers and symposia, and here is the most damning evidence of all that, even if acknowledging the problem is half the solution, it is only half...
...autoworkers feel about the federal bailouts? Like most people in the Motor City, protective. "Why did the government bail out the banks and not the car companies?" asks Jerry Lelito, a General Motors plant manager for 23 years. "Those bankers make huge windfalls, and the executives walk away with golden parachutes. These are hardworking American workers who make up the industrial core in this country. So many other industries depend on the existence of the U.S. auto industry." Warren David adds that while the younger immigrant generations are not as directly affected (many have received better educations and went...
...getting a Cabinet post, an ambassadorship or even a high-paying corporate gig. Driving these fantasies was his statutory power to name a replacement for former Senator Barack Obama - a power that to Blagojevich seemed like money in the bank. "I've got this thing, and it's f______ golden," he told an aide a day after the November elections on a home phone that was tapped by the FBI. "I'm just not giving it up for f______ nothing...
...Under the golden dome that tops the booth for Maître-Verrier, a French designer of high-end stained glass, saleswoman Claude Bonte captures the sense of optimism changing to gloom. "Russians are always good clients," she says, "for the moment...