Word: manners
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...play five matches. “She managed to play her highest level of squash for every match,” he said. “In the past she has sometimes slipped. This was the first weekend she went through everything in a very consistent and diligent manner.” Grigg was relatively unchallenged in her first two matches, but both the quarterfinal and semifinal matches were extended to four games. She said those matches, in which she defeated Yale’s Miranda Ranieri (9-6, 9-4, 4-9, 9-3) and Trinity?...
...Some pointed to troubles in the mortgage business, others to disappointing manufacturing data, yet others to that Greenspan speech. "Our minds are ... capable of mounting explanations for all manner of phenomena, and generally incapable of accepting the idea of unpredictability," writes derivatives trader Nassim Nicholas Taleb in his soon-to-be-published book The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable...
Some pointed to troubles in the mortgage business, others to disappointing manufacturing data, yet others to that Greenspan speech. "Our minds are ... capable of mounting explanations for all manner of phenomena, and generally incapable of accepting the idea of unpredictability," writes derivatives trader Nassim Nicholas Taleb in his soon-to-be-published book The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable...
...undermined the judgment of the Newbery Medal committee. Censorship is supposed to protect children from being corrupted by substandard portrayal of important topics and issues. It is not intended to keep children ignorant of the adult world, but to ensure that children learn about adult issues in the correct manner. With the amount of improper and faulty information around, censorship serves a vital role in society, but this case is a clear example of its abuse...
...words in a children’s book and complementing one’s narrative with the use of words that signify the mysterious adult world around the protagonist. If taboo subjects are brought up in a children’s book and dealt with in the proper manner, then it should not be censored...