Word: hollowing
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...most important thing we earn is your trust." That Prudential Securities advertising slogan rang a bit hollow last week after the company agreed to pay the largest penalty ever levied against a brokerage for defrauding small investors. Prudential said it would repay at least $330 million to customers across the U.S. who lost money on the company's limited partnerships in the 1980s. The firm will pay another $41 million in fines. Even those hefty sums might be little more than a down payment: in settling with the Securities and Exchange Commission, Prudential said it will fully compensate all investors...
...respond to selected, short quotes pulled from a news article. People who disagree with him should use their best arguments to refute his assertions. If those that disagree with Mansfield are sure of their convictions they should fear nothing Mansfield will say. His comments will only seem more hollow in the face of strong, articulate responses...
...hears for the first time his family's legendary epic song. He is struck by how the "words and voice alike might as easily have come from the mouth of dead as of the living." The music of the strange boxlike instrument the musicians carry is akin to "the hollow...inside his own chest...
...after the glow of triumph fades, you are left with a certain hollow feeling. Rudy Ruettiger's determination and heart are admirable--and his obsession some what frightening--but you can't help feeling, "Why wasn't his life-long dream a cure for cancer?" So if you want serious art and debate over social issues, go see something at the Brattle. But if you're in the mood for some Easy Cheese that will go down smoothly, go cheer for "Rudy...
...been quick to dismiss the goals and motivations of the women who have decided to boycott final clubs this year. You have neatly packaged us as a homogeneous group of athletes hoping to gain access to a system of privilege and elitism, and you have glibly called us "hollow feminists...