Word: making
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Make no mistake; I'm livid at the Street, which is inflicting pain on people who don't deserve it and ruining things for moderates like me, who believe in markets but with intelligent regulation. And did I mention gouging people before new credit-card rules come in? I did. It's obscene...
...fact, much of the money that taxpayers have pumped into the financial system has ended up at banks that are lending it back to the government by buying Treasury securities. Isn't that great? We make money available to the banks at 0%, they lend it to the government at a markup, and they make money off our tax dollars, whining every step...
...them. "Our economy is different in a thousand ways from the hunter-gatherer societies we studied, but they may be similar in one critical way," says Bowles. "Whether you're forming a hunting party or a team of software engineers, what matters is your creativity and your ability to make connections with others...
...Shamsie is said to write with “warmth and gusto.” And the book is indeed a pleasing read, chock-full of family legends and tales of love that transcend caste boundaries. But the overwhelming feeling upon turning the last page is that all this makes Pakistan seem rather like a fairy tale: and that all this has been said before.The tendency for South Asian authors to draw from the same well of themes again and again, worn out and misguided as they are, likely has more to do with over-ambition than laziness. Walk into...
...really have to be driven to win.” Kucharczyk said. “I don’t have the stick skills of the other girls on the field hockey team, but I definitely want to win and am willing to work my butt off to make that possible...