Word: mentionable
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...change the perception of banks from being "too big to fail" into being "too big to be discussed in public." His most impressive statement at yesterday's Oversight Panel cross examination was that the "vast majority" of American banks are well-capitalized. He neglected to mention which financial firms are in trouble. It could be that two of the four largest banks in the US have too much trash on their balance sheets to make it through the year without large cash infusions. If anything like that is true, how well all the medium-sized banks are doing is hardly...
...least one student plans to translate his sports backgound into a career. Before the interview, Balcetis lays his phone carefully on its side on the radiator next to him. He doesn’t mention it until the discussion turns to careers and the future. He grins and points at the phone, saying, “I’m trying to actually get a job with the NBA. I’m actually waiting for a call right now, as we speak, with the Player Development Group. Sports entertainment, sports marketing, things like that.” He leaves...
...seems counterintuitive to suddenly, during a recession, charge a premium for a magazine that others get for nothing - without putting, say, a Treasury bill in each newsstand copy. Not to mention pulling such a move while competing with all the financial advice that's sitting there gratis on the Internet. But the publishers don't see it that way. "Our audience is of very high-net-worth individuals," says Worth publisher Patrick Williams. "Not someone like me who's worried about their 401(k)." (See the top 10 magazine covers...
...Noticeably absent from this explanation of the recession is any mention of Bush’s tax policy, health-care plans, climate-change proposals, education programs, or foreign policy. Reading The Crimson, however, you’d think the president’s policies broke the economy by themselves. Bush-hating revisionists use the unpopularity of our 43rd president to discredit conservative policies in general. But Bush’s failure to regulate financial and housing markets should not be confused with his success in economic growth, trade, education, and health care...
...have seen them frolicking about past the 9 o’clock hour), when all decent individuals have long since retired for the evening. They speak in vulgarities, spewing phrases like “gosh darn it” and “shucks,” not to mention their fixation on playing table tennis in the wee hours of the morning. Do they not realize that sportsmanship should take place only in daylight...