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...asked me when I was 18 what I'd like to do with my life, I'd have said I'd like to write a novel at some point. But then I sort of fell into journalism. I guess sometime after Killing Yourself to Live, I kinda wanted to write long form fiction, and I had an idea for a story and I decided to try. This is retrospective: I've been asked this question many times, and I keep coming up with interesting ways to make up answers...
...something important each day, never leaving yourself with a heart-attack-producing task of running one thousand miles in the last week of the race," he says. False urgency is marked by frenetic activity, meeting upon meeting, task force after task force and an anxious, angry and frustrated workforce. Guess which urgency is more common...
...soon to estimate this," says Bert Ely, a financial consultant based in Alexandria, Va., who delivered some of the most accurate estimates of the cost of the savings-and-loan crisis of the 1980s. The S&L experience is instructive: the cost estimates started low (Ely's first guess was $25 billion), then eventually grew to $500 billion. The actual price tag, as calculated by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. (FDIC) long after the fact: $123.8 billion, or about 2% of annual GDP during the bailout years. That's equivalent to $286 billion today...
...from Russia, even if it meant going to war, did allow her to mention that she'd spoken to President Saakashvili to assure him of her support. Gibson pressed her on how she would view Israel attacking Iran's nuclear facilities. "I don't think that we should second-guess the measures Israel has to take to defend themselves and for their security," she replied. Again Gibson asked, Does that mean you would approve an Israeli attack on Iran...
...think we can second-guess what Israel has to do to secure its nation." And again he asked, and again she declined to "second-guess...