Word: hating
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Evasiveness is another characteristic that foreign businessmen may encounter. The Japanese, who frequently learn to suppress their views out of deference to their seniors, often hate to be pinned down. Add to this the Japanese tendency to tell listeners what they seem to want to hear and a negotiator can easily go astray...
Tony's precocious third-grade essay, "Why I Would Hate to Be a Basement," has long been enshrined in local lore, but his early academic promise has led only to idle fancying. Miss Doubloon, the lad's current teacher, explains to his anxious parents: "He would rather read novels in which the characters toy with a little Brie while waiting for their friends to turn up along the boulevard. If we can't get Anthony to concentrate, and hard, on the War of 1812 and obtuse triangles-" The pupil interrupts: "Like the dumb postmaster and his wife...
...case. He's from Anaheim, and he spends all his time telling people he's not a Mexican. Nobody really cares, but Martinez goes on and on saying he is a U.S. citizen with Argentine bloodlines. Martinez was growling that his recruiting officer sold him out. "I hate the Marines," he said. "I want my beard back! I want hair! My time is up in February 1985, and I ain't looking back, man. I wanted combat engineering. I wanted to be somebody when I got out. They give me infantry. So what are my skills...
...good you have to hate losing a lot more than you like winning," says Sands, whose losses here have been few and far between...
...that has to pay that rent every month? So now, we have rent control. I am the deciding vote that makes it law. I have used my power as an elected official to restrain the collective power of the entire real estate industry in the City of Cambridge. They hate me. Every election they organize to defeat me. But on the first of every month, I know there are 21,000 Cambridge households that have a better chance of making ends meet because of the way I have chosen to use the power that I have...