Word: lament
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...Really. That’s because Gilbert, the recent subject of a New York Times Magazine profile entitled “The Futile Pursuit of Happiness,” has spent the last decade studying disappointment. The Psych 1 prof took some time this week to bash Ouija boards, lament his lack of groupies and educate FM on the latest in (un)happiness studies. But beware: you won’t enjoy reading this as much as you think you will...
...chin-pulling do-gooders (in addition to the disingenuous partisans) lament the injecting of fear into the campaign. The candidates, they insist, should instead be pointing to the sunny uplands of the American dream and showing how their seven-point program will get us there...
...chin-pulling do-gooders (in addition to the disingenuous partisans) lament the injecting of fear into the campaign. The candidates, they insist, should instead be pointing to the sunny uplands of the American dream and showing how their seven-point program will get us there...
...credit - a secondhand car. "I'm my own Finance Minister," she jokes. "I don't run up debt." Still, if the state didn't take such a big chunk of her income every month, she says she would spend more rather than squirreling it away. Multiply Moser's lament across 42 million German workers and it's easy to see how high taxes hamper consumer spending and bog down the country's economy. Indeed, having to pay more taxes for less service is a common lament these days in Europe, where taxes and social charges have risen sharply over...
...among the new eastern members - like Poland and the Czech Republic - who are now diluting France and Germany's historic domination of the E.U. "We are operating in a Europe of 25, not a Europe of six or two or one," he said. But British backers of the constitution lament that by portraying E.U. negotiations as fights against wily foreigners, Blair has allowed anti-E.U. opinion in Britain to grow and harden. British Euro-skeptics think he's using red-meat rhetoric to conceal a major shift of power to Brussels. "The British government is clearly determined just...