Word: grantedness
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Australians never used to have to say it. Pride in the country was largely unmentioned, taken for granted. In recent years, however, there's been a surge of racially tinged nationalism, particularly among the young and coalescing around the Australian flag, which has become the symbol of a new tribe...
The issue is whether their presence, dizzy with exhaustion, on the hospital floor is a help or a hazard. An oft cited 2004 study of intensive-care units found that medical residents made 36% more serious mistakes during 30-hour shifts than during shifts half as long. So the simple...
The property originally belonged to a Hokkien merchant, Tan Bunpa, a prominent member of the Chinese community who was granted Cambodian citizenship in 1930. Tan's family was forced to give up the house when the Khmer Rouge seized power in the 1970s, but in 2007 the property was returned...
It speaks to the divisions Marilyn French chronicled that her death, on May 2 at 79, left women of certain vintages bereft but seemed to go largely unnoticed by their male contemporaries. THIS BOOK WILL CHANGE YOUR LIFE: that was the pledge on the dust jacket of French's 1977...
Granted, you don't normally associate the word cheap with Japan. But cheap land, cheap chic; something's going on.