Word: honest
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...this last bit sounds too ethical to be true, that's because, these days, it is. "To be honest," Diamond explains, "In the medieval and the modern periods, Jewish law caved to the marketplace on this." The financial markets that Jews found themselves in routinely assumed profits of over 6%, and they followed suit. "It became more an aspiration than a duty," he says. "Let's say that the more pious among us would take this seriously in establishing prices that are responsible, based on the marketplace." Indeed, with the exception of those involved in specifically Jewish markets like...
...brain instead of the heart, because we started off early on saying it wasn't an illness, we kept it and they wouldn't let us change it. How did you feel when you found out the bill had finally passed? You know, I'm going to be dead-honest with you, it dragged on so long that I didn't act like I normally would have. I wasn't like me. I [usually] get excited, passionate, but I didn't have any of those feelings because I was thinking it can't be real. It was more like...
...Venezuelan singer that evening were not self-deprecation, nor were they even a poor attempt at lowering crowd expectations. Instead, they were indicative of a mode of living that the album embodies—one in which the artists involved are fundamentally talented and seem to derive true and honest pleasure from making music, no matter its form or focus. A comparison comes to mind, one that is both spot-on and completely unrelated: the menu at Shopsin’s in Lower Manhattan. Five days a week, the tiny restaurant offers almost 1,000 menu items, including Senegalese chicken...
...seen that doesn’t star Brando or Newman or the Marx Brothers. Though I’ve seen many of the best and worst films of the last two decades, I have little to no knowledge of B-movies or older exploitation films. To be honest, I hadn’t even heard the word “grindhouse” until Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino’s spoof of the genre—which I also never saw—came out in 2007. So when I found out that the Brattle Theatre was showing...
...he’s going to have to do that the rest of the season.” The run kept what had been a pass-happy offense—the Crimson had thrown over 91 passes through two games—more balanced and a tough Lafayette defense honest. Pizzotti was able to relax more in the pocket and even got in on a few run plays himself. In addition to going 15-of-28 for 231 yards and a touchdown, the senior executed the option twice and rushed for a net of 20 yards. “It?...