Word: gossipping
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...then there were the parties with high school friends where new haircuts, waistlines and priceless gossip were revealed...
...engaged, his very politeness a kind of barrier. His steadfast allegiance to the controversial Church of Scientology, his surprising split a year ago from Nicole Kidman, the gay rumors (and his diligent litigation in response) serve to remind us that despite all the ink spilled and all the gossip milled over the past two decades, Cruise remains someone about whom we have never quite been able to connect the dots...
...therapy teaches people who are anxious or depressed to reconfigure their view of the world and develop a more realistic perspective on the risks or obstacles they face. Patients suffering from social-anxiety disorder, for example, might see a group of people whispering at a party and assume the gossip is about them. A cognitive therapist would teach them to rethink that assumption. Some behavioral therapists question cognitive techniques, arguing--not without some justification--that a brain that was so receptive to reason wouldn't be all that anxious in the first place. Cognitive therapists dispute that idea, though some...
...leaders are marginalized, the area of their jurisdiction is effectively reduced. For example, if an African-American executive is asked only about issues involving race, that person has been marginalized. Likewise, executives have found themselves diverted from their agenda by truckloads of nonessential work. Attacks can range from malicious gossip to--in the case of political leaders--assassination. Business leaders can be seduced in an attempt to please their allies rather than stay a difficult course...
...Randy J. Gomes ’02 were indicted for grand larceny for allegedly stealing over $90,000 from the Hasty Pudding Theatricals, much of the campus (and many of The Crimson’s editorial columnists) couldn’t help but speculate and gossip about the scandal. Prosecutors charge the pair with using the stolen funds to finance “lavish lifestyles” and Gomes’ expensive drug habit. Rumors about past extravagances and transgressions—like Pomey’s open-bar 21st birthday bash, financed by Gomes, or Pomey?...