Word: mattering
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...less reflective of actual wealth. The result, he says, has been bad for our economy, the planet and the individual investor. The antidote, according to Tasch, is expressed in the subtitle of his book, Inquiries Into the Nature of Slow Money: Investing as if Farms, Food, and Fertility Matter...
...summations, highlighting the most important images as the narrator perceived them, not in the way that the form of the conventional novel dictates. Each sentence (only one or two of which will ever dwell on the same topic) is marked by innovative precision and great affection for the subject matter. Sometimes Hoffmann is blatantly avant-garde. Titled doodles highlight seemingly random phrases from the text, there are no page numbers to be found, and the speaker adopts the royal “we” for a period (though not without specifying parenthetically each time that what he means...
...matter where you are economically, you're living in a community - you've got kids in the public school system, and we all know that the public schools need as much support as they can get: parents reading to kids, people going on field trips, people monitoring recess. Those are things that you can do if you have time on your hands that add value to your home base...
...part of what Barack and I have always tried to do is lead by example. We're trying to do that in our own family, showing our kids that no matter where we are, whether times are good or bad, we have to be thinking about what we do for those of us around us. And what you'll see us doing more of out of the First Lady's Office, and what we're doing throughout the White House is really trying to put those visions in action. That's why you see us doing service so much. That...
...should be spent on it and what are the priorities and do we do it at this time. There may be a time for it, and it's certainly, I think, something that seems to have a lot of bipartisan appeal - service and education. But it's just a matter of prioritization right now. And the National Service Act represents an important, you know...