Word: lingos
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...congratulate your magazine for its great journalism of recent weeks. For us on Main Street who are not up with the latest economic lingo, the clear and understandable articles have kept me well informed. It's a shame that the policymakers and moneymen of this world are not as informed about history as Professor Ferguson, and don't realize it always repeats itself. Jason Williams, CARDIFF BAY, CARDIFF...
...because you’re just that crazy. You are. We know you are. But you got to pay attention to the game, bro. We just lost 40-10. Principle 2: Analyze the situation ‘Lyze the Sitch’, for those familiar with top-secret rush lingo. As the clock counts down, and your team is nearing a thrilling victory, your job is only beginning. While the rest of the crowd loses control, frolics about, and “high-fives” each other, you must maintain complete focus at all times. If you don?...
Stanford, who fell in love with cricket when he moved to Antigua in the 1980s, radiates the enthusiasm of a convert. His eyes light up and his hands flail as he re-enacts a favorite moment from a recent game--even though he lapses into baseball lingo (line drives and home runs) to describe the play. He lovingly describes the new cricket stadium he has built in Antigua, complete with an American-style hall of fame. He revels in dropping the names of Caribbean cricket stars he now counts as his friends. But his spending on Twenty20 is not just...
...radio and a car battery to power it, along with garbage from countless meals--beer, soda, fruit cocktail, beans, tuna, sardines, coffee creamer--and blankets, sweaters, gas stoves and propane bottles. The spotters hide in caves on the hillside whenever a chopper flies by (they "rock up," in CBP lingo), but Dart said he had managed to catch three men there the previous month. By the next day, there were signs that a new spotter had arrived...
...What we've learned here, basic principles like 'Ask questions instead of giving direct orders,' are a given in [international corporations]. Everyone picks up these skills along the way, and if you want to join the ranks, you must learn these too. It's like learning to speak the lingo and to fit in," says Gerald Santiago, who previously worked at AOL and is hoping to join Infosys soon...