Word: hurriedness
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Suddenly, Liechtenstein scrambled to set matters right. Within two working days, the parliament hurried through a bundle of new laws making it a crime for bankers or financial intermediaries to fail to report suspicious activity, and allowing Liechtenstein authorities to cooperate with foreign authorities to fight money laundering. The legislature...
It is not hard for parents to fall short, says David Elkind, professor of child development at Tufts University and author of The Hurried Child. "There's a time famine," he says. "Jobs are becoming more and more demanding, and when something has to give, it may well be involvement...
They objected that the site recommendation--first presented to members at the school committee meeting last night--was hurried and lacked the sanction of the steering committee, a group of parents, teachers and district officials that has met weekly since fall to discuss the merger.
Somewhere in the course of a 25-year marriage, my parents fell in love. They grew to see one another as more than just a partner they could pay off a mortgage with. Instead, the 19-year-old village girl and the 37-year-old bachelor had matured into people...
"The First Amendment protects the right to waste somebody's time," says TIME legal reporter Alain Sanders. "In all political speech there's an element of caveat emptor - it's up to the consumer to discern how truthful what they're reading and hearing is." In addition, says Sanders, "political...