Word: guttings
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...price? Why do we spend more with a credit card than we do when paying with cash? How can we simultaneously desire a healthy diet and quickly devour the slice of chocolate cake in front of us? And what does it really mean when we experience a sudden, inexplicable gut feeling about something? While we can't always control (or understand, for that matter) what our brain tells us, Lehrer writes, we can learn when to rely on reason and when to listen to our emotions. Sometimes a little piece of chocolate cake can be good...
...gut-wrenching, back-and-forth game at Lavietes Pavilion Friday night, the Harvard men’s basketball team came out on the short end, as the University of Pennsylvania made the clutch plays down the stretch and got the bounces it needed to win 66-60. Tight throughout a second half that saw three ties and six lead changes, the Quakers (5-10, 1-0 Ivy) took the lead in the final two minutes and held on to it to give the Crimson (9-7, 1-2 Ivy) its second-straight home Ivy loss. Harvard got 14 points...
...disappointed we didn’t play a little better in the moments we need to gut out a game like this,” Amaker said. “Give credit to Penn, they played very well in stretches...
...gut-wrenching, back-and-forth game at Lavietes Pavilion Friday night, the Harvard men’s basketball team came out on the short end, as the University of Pennsylvania made the clutch plays down the stretch and got the bounces it needed...
Call it the law that just won't die. Six months after France's ruling Conservatives voted to gut the nation's famous 35-hour work week, anecdotal evidence suggests most companies are sticking with it. French corporations and smaller firms furiously denounced the Socialist's 1998 work-week reduction, and last year's law change allows employers to force staff to work longer hours. But most bosses appear to have stuck with the shorter week, to avoid disputes with leisure-loving employees, and, it seems, as a useful tool in dealing with the growing economic downturn...