Word: listened
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...said. “It raises the most important discussion being had in the culture today.” Waters, an editor at the HUP, said that the panel made certain concepts in the humanities more accessible. “The barriers between the humanities break down when you listen to these two guys speak,” he said. At the end of the discussion, Taylor said, “I felt that the event was important in showing the complexity of civilization and the sacred and secular worlds. In it, one is not replacing the other, but there...
...adjoining lecterns - Obama conjured a sense of optimism about what the G-20 might achieve, and more broadly about America's changed view of its international role. He had come, he told an audience that included Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Secretary of the Treasury Timothy Geithner, "to listen, not to lecture." The phrase had already been telegraphed by his press team, but it was no less powerful for that, especially to an audience used to his predecessor's homilies on American views and values. More startling, Obama said the U.S. was coming...
...Obama and his aides will say in London what they say every minute of every day to anyone who will listen. If the American government does not allows its deficit to rise into the trillions of dollars, the consequences will be a depression which will last for several years and put more millions of Americans out of jobs. The U.S. tax base will be ruined, which will cause huge deficits because of rapidly falling IRS collections as corporations and individuals lose their ability to create income. Even if government keeps expenses as they were last year, the budget deficit will...
Let’s say about 3% of undergrads regularly listen to WHRB. Let’s also say that about 15% of the undergrad population has iPhones. Taking those two things to be independent (and acknowledging that they’re generous), about 30 College students will probably download this...
...about money and pets, the number of people who don't have a choice increases. People's houses get foreclosed and they have to rent somewhere and the landlord doesn't take pets - well, they don't have a choice anymore. Similarly, at vet hospitals when the vet says, "Listen we can do this procedure that might save your animal but it will cost $8,000." More people are saying, "Well I don't have $8,000." But for people who do still have a choice, you're seeing a willingness to scrimp and save for themselves before they demote...