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It’s only the rarest of hockey games that features three periods of up-and-down, high-scoring, roller-coaster action, and then continues with nearly a full game’s worth of scoreless, grind-it-out attrition...
While Chanda has moved away from the daily grind of reporting, the lessons of his earlier days stay with...
...scheme could raise unwelcome comparisons with Russia's Yukos, the energy company many believe was driven out of business by the Kremlin for political reasons. Another concern is that regional and local officials might use reprivatization to settle old scores. Even Yushchenko and Tymoshenko potentially have big axes to grind. Tymoshenko spent 42 days in jail in 2001 on bribery and other charges, which the Prosecutor General's office has since dropped as groundless, relating to her years as head of the gas-and-oil trading firm United Energy Systems. Perhaps because the agendas are so complex, the official line...
While car sharing is a concept that's catching on fast, old-fashioned carpooling has always faced an uphill grind. In a survey about traffic problems by TIME, ABC News and the Washington Post, 84% of those who drive to work say they still go it alone. More than half of those lone riders insist that carpooling is just too inconvenient, and 18% say they simply don't know anyone to share a ride with...
...culture of silence is the erosion of ambition. It is in poor taste to look grasping, and in poor taste to aspire too transparently towards something, be it a grade or a position of leadership or a place in a final club. A gadabout is always cooler than a grind. Ambition is pass?...