Word: lots
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...first half of the book is heartwarming, though, as Zeitoun paddles around in a canoe saving people. It was unlike any depiction of Katrina I saw on the news when it happened. The media depictions of Katrina were so skewed, and they were aided and abetted by a lot of people on the ground. Everyone painted this picture of a city divulging into utter chaos. Most of these rumors proved unfounded. Neighborhoods experienced the storm differently. The Zeitouns live in Uptown, where for most of the time it was quite peaceful; Zeitoun talks about this incredible quiet, with the only...
...been nine years since A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius came out, and you went from being unknown to being heralded as the voice of Generation X. What was it like when that book came out? It was really unnerving and it shook me up a lot. I thought only a few people would ever read it. The first print run was only 8,000 or 9,000, and the publishers really thought they'd lose money on it. I also hadn't prepared for an older audience, but people with gray hair were reading it. That was unsettling because...
...also the very nature of employment and what kinds of workers are valued. These firms sit at the nexus - they are the financial advisers and sources of expertise to major U.S. corporations and institutional investors - and from this highly empowered middle-man role, what they say has a lot of influence. The model that came to be dominant in the 1980s was one of constant change. The idea is that there's a lot of dead wood out there and people should be constantly moving, in lockstep with the market. If a company isn't constantly restructuring and changing, then...
...think that attitude follows from the way Wall Street works? What a lot of folks don't realize is there are tons of layoffs on Wall Street even during a boom. What they value is not worker stability but constant market simultaneity. If mortgages aren't the best thing, it's, "Let's get rid of the mortgage desk and we'll hire them back in a year." People were working a hundred hours a week, but constantly talking about job insecurity. Wall Street bankers understand that they are liquid people. It's part of their culture. I had bankers...
...hear a lot about "bending the curve." What are the most effective ways to lower the overall costs of American health care? First, you've got to integrate payment and provision of care. Everybody talks about preventive medicine, but almost nobody does it because there's no payback. A private practitioner invests money in preventive care and the hospital benefits. They're not connected. Second, pay people - particularly primary-care providers - for taking good care of patients without rewarding doctors for doing more and more and more. That's what the system is currently based on. The more...