Word: mattering
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...helm of the assistance center is Emelda Johnson, who spent four years as the deputy assistant secretary at the Housing and Urban Development Department in Washington, D.C. The city hired her in September, and, in a matter of months, she was crafting the plan for the foreclosure assistance center, an idea that she said has no precedent. Johnson contacted lenders, non-profits, mortgage entities, "anyone who touched the whole process of lending." But as the program was being formulated, many of those groups backed out. Still, partners came on board. At first, $1 million was cobbled together from a developer...
...Hyatt and Shangri-La hotel chains. Sugimoto was tired of the proliferation of stale Japanese icons overseas, the lackluster sushi bars or suburban karate studios. He decided, instead, to export a whole new aesthetic that plays with the collision of natural materials, such as bamboo and stone, with industrial matter such as scrap metal or junkyard finds. The result is a celebration of irregularity, a sharp contrast to a Western design sense that, even in its modernist forms, tends to hew to symmetry. "It's not just foreigners who didn't understand what it meant for something to be Japanese...
...premature to specify what precise measures the West should adopt. But Russia must be made to understand that it is in danger of becoming ostracized internationally. This should be a matter of considerable concern to Russia's new business élite, who are increasingly vulnerable to global financial pressure. Russia's powerful oligarchs have hundreds of billions of dollars in Western bank accounts. They would stand to lose a great deal in the event of a Cold War-style standoff that could conceivably result, at some stage, in the West's freezing of such holdings...
Schwarzenegger, who has been clear that he would fight for homeschooling, was pleased with the new ruling. "This is a victory for California's students, parents and education community," he said in a statement. "I hope the ruling settles this matter for parents and homeschooled children once and for all in California, but assures them that we, as elected officials, will continue to defend parents' rights...
...gymnasts of the women's team are competing injured - and that's not even counting the ones who hurt themselves either before or just after the Olympic trials in July and lost their chance to become a part of this squad at all. Making the team is more a matter of playing last-gymnast-standing than being the most talented acrobat around. "That was our fear when we originally saw it," says Bart Conner, an Olympic gold medalist from the 1984 Los Angeles Games, on the new code of points, "that it was going to lead...