Word: impressiveness
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...poverty that disproportionately afflicts its population. “Life is 10 percent what life does to you, and 90 percent how you respond to it,” Bryant said. “It’s about choices—are you going to evolve or devolve, impress or depress?” Bryant is the founder, chairman, and CEO of Operation HOPE, America’s first non-profit social investment banking organization...
...finding it to be a "connection between the theory and the practice" of their Catholic faith, joined a few years later. A stockbroker, Silas says the organization has helped him find a way to bring his faith into his professional life. Every workaday task becomes an opportunity to impress God. "You don't just buy [a stock] because it's on the buying list," he says. "You have to do independent research. You have to be sure that this is someplace you would put your [own] money. Your conscience is being touched...
...resemblance to her actual appearance (many times a vain hope), it occurred to me that there are really only two types of female Facebook profile pictures. First is the girl whose picture is a “group shot” of her with her girlfriends; she hopes to impress guys by advertising her popularity, but does not realize that this tactic usually backfires because the guy gets distracted by one of her attractive friends. Then there is the girl who posts what she believes is the “best” picture of herself, far more often than...
...elegant armchair for the reporter, but realized right away that the long, antique sofa where he and his aide would be sitting needed to be moved first. Rather than wait for one of the many stewards to do the heavy lifting, Berlusconi, with a technique that would impress Governor Schwarzenegger, bent down himself to move one, and then the other, side of the bulky sofa himself...
...SANK HIS BATTLESHIP Spain's Philip II didn't impress England's Elizabeth I, who said she couldn't "fear a man who took 10 years a-learning of his alphabet." Her ships humiliated his armada...