Word: merchantable
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...been puzzled for many years over one aspect of another bad decision I made, this time as an adolescent. In later years it was not difficult for me to understand why I made the decision to leave high school early in my senior year to enter the Merchant Marine. What I could not understand was why my loving father (since deceased) so readily acquiesced to this plan; he never lifted a finger to try to prevent his promising high school student son from abandoning our shared dream of my going to college. One evening while stoned many years later...
...land had previously been "given" to the Indians. "Custer was sent in to strong-arm the Indians, and we all know how that turned out," says Milch. The story begins two weeks after Custer's last stand at Little Bighorn and features fictional characters like a marshal turned merchant played by Timothy Olyphant (Gone in Sixty Seconds) as well as historical figures like "Wild Bill" Hickok (Keith Carradine...
...they were found, and then let reporters film the bodies cleaned up, retouched and shaved. "We have to see it with our own eyes," said Ahmed Ismail, a kabob-shop owner in Tikrit. He was among a minority who expressed hope that the brothers were still alive. Another merchant, Fadhil Awda, who had dropped by for lunch, also doubted that the sons were dead. "And if it is true," he said, "then we will be more proud because they resisted for hours, and they were only four, while the Americans were...
...discount-travel shop in London in 1980. His knowledge of the industry, not technowizardry, was the basis of e-bookers' success. To avoid competition with low-cost, puddle-jumping carriers like Easyjet, it focuses on the mid- and long-haul market. To get cheap merchant fares, e-bookers has personnel in 11 countries. It uses flights to sell lucrative hotel bookings. And last year e-bookers yanked its central office out of Britain and moved the 400 jobs to low-cost New Delhi. The business model may not be sexy, but it is working. Sales rose 52% last year. Nearly...
...appointed a committee for what would turn out, in hindsight, to be a momentous task, but one that at the time did not seem so important: drafting a declaration that explained the decision. It included Franklin, of course, and Thomas Jefferson and John Adams, as well as Connecticut merchant Roger Sherman and New York lawyer Robert Livingston...