Word: mori
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...Jupiter. Toga-clad senators and the families of prominent patricians followed ahead of conquering ranks of legionaries. Bulls were sacrificed, laurel wreaths donned. Chariots bore the plundered loot of subjugated tribes, and captured barbarians were yanked along in chains. Some of the slaves had instructions to mutter "Memento mori" (Remember you are mortal) to their captors - an ironic note in a propaganda play designed to bind the Roman public to its leaders...
...Little wonder that fewer than one in 10 Japanese support Aso, according to a recent poll by Nippon Television. His approval rating of 9.7% is the lowest since former Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori bottomed out at 8.6% in February 2001. (Mori resigned two months later.) Despite efforts to jumpstart economic growth, including a controversial proposal to hand out $21.7 billion to the Japanese public, many think Aso hasn't done enough. "We have a once-in-a-hundred-year crisis and the policy response is not even average," says Jesper Koll, president and CEO of Tantallon Research Japan. "The people...
Point: Tempus fugit, memento mori...
...It’s ever-producing. It’s this thing that you can do battle with forever, but it’ll never stop. Someone once said that dust was like a marker of time. The accumulation of dust, I think, is a memento mori, a reminder of decay.”The passage of time is a resounding theme in Davey’s work that manifests itself not only in each individual photograph—be it through the time it takes to amass a record collection, or to consume a bottle of liquor?...
...that the rest of the planned progam, including speeches in favor of Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, would be scrapped. He asked people who had already voted to leave so that the hordes "standing five-deep" in the street could come in. Bob Worcester, the founder of research company MORI, an active member of Democrats Abroad since he moved to England in 1969, laughed ruefully. "If we were organized, we'd be Republicans," he said...