Word: inventing
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...TIME: Your budget spends on the poor without punishing the rich. Is this a sign that India has moved beyond socialism in its attempt to fight poverty? Chidambaram: Socialist goals remain valid. What we are trying to do is devise and invent better means to achieve those goals...
...more labor, more fun, more family time and more sheer activity from their lives, the traditional 24-hour day has become an anachronistic inconvenience, much like the sit-down evening meal. Though early-to-bed Ben Franklin might not approve, the famously sleepless Thomas Edison probably would. Why else invent the lightbulb...
...carries this big picture with grace. As for Scorsese, he seems to have taken a cue from the DiCaprio façade, fashioning a portrait of smooth surfaces and trusting DiCaprio to show what's inside. Well, an actor can reveal meaning, but he shouldn't be asked to invent it. Despite its star's heroic efforts, The Aviator is a gorgeous jet, flying on automatic pilot. --By Richard Corliss
...Mandarin-speaking announcers and staff to woo the millions of mainland-Chinese tourists flooding the territory. The club employs "ambassadors" at the tracks to instruct newcomers on the betting process. Next up: Wong is considering a year-round racing schedule. "If we want to stay alive, we have to invent," he says...
...liabilities of this offshore firm to another offshore entity that isn't consolidated in its accounts, thus making it appear that the loans are assets and the debt has been repaid. Step 9 As the amounts transferred offshore and off the books grow ever larger, Parmalat executives invent fictitious milk powder sales to justify them...