Word: mannerize
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Before the company officially went bankrupt, Lay, who had earned admiration for his unpolished, affable manner, had lost his loyal fan base. In late October--a day after Enron acknowledged that the SEC had opened an investigation of its accounting practices--Lay tried his best to raise the spirits of his downtrodden workforce. At a company gathering caught on videotape, the son of a Missouri minister promised that there wouldn't be any layoffs and that Enron would rise again. For once, though, the rank and file weren't drinking Ken's Kool-Aid. As one disgruntled worker...
...unbiased view of history." Dijana Plut of the Institute of Psychology, a member of the team that analyzes textbook content, concurs: "The best thing would be to omit the post-Tito era altogether, since it seems it was impossible to describe it in a proper and in-depth manner...
...single photographic negative, innumerable prints can be struck, each daguerreotype is composed of a single silver-coated copper plate from which no exact copies can be created. When viewed straight on, the image presented is the traditional positive, but as perspective shifts, the negative appears—in this manner, simultaneously occupying the normal and reverse of photographs, the singular uniqueness of daguerreotypes becomes wonderfully apparent...
...attempting to proceed in a responsible manner that emphasizes circular and scholarly development,” he said...
...physician-assisted suicide, have accused Ashcroft and the Bush Administration of hypocrisy. All five of Oregon’s House members have condemned Ashcroft’s action against the state. Ashcroft seems to support states’ rights only when the states are exercising their rights in a manner that pleases him and the president...