Word: institutionalize
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Vincent had been in a mental institution before. While finishing her previous book, Self-Made Man-in which she went undercover as a man for more than a year- Vincent was overcome with depression, lost touch with reality and checked herself into a psychiatric hospital. The experience was not a...
But during all of that, there was also persistent anecdotal evidence that lending to credit-worthy borrowers was doing just fine - it seemed every other day some community bank CEO was on CNBC talking about how many loans his institution was making to small businesses and people who wanted to...
"We trash each other and end up making the institution look bad. That's why Congress's approval ratings are so low." - on the pitfalls of Congressional squabbling, FOX News, Dec. 7, 2007
Now, I'm not calling GM and Chrysler zombies. Nor am I predicting that the U.S. economy will glide effortlessly through a crisis at the Big Three. But history tells us that no firm is completely indispensable to a national economy, no matter how much of an institution it appears...
Sorry, had to look them up. That would be VA Secretary James Peake, HUD Secretary Steve Preston and Energy Secretary Samuel Bodman. They're not exactly household names, which is why it's so weird that second-tier Cabinet appointees get so much attention initially; they rarely make much news...