Word: nag
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...will India do it? The key to sustained 9% growth, says Rajat Nag, the managing director general of the Asian Development Bank, "is governance." Behind that new buzzword lies a fundamental truth. The successful modernization of societies, it turns out, is not just a question of economics - of getting the macroeconomic fundamentals right and letting market forces and the private sector do the rest. It depends also on having effective, clean governments, at every level down to the village, which do not waste economic largesse or appropriate it for the use of their own politicians and officials. That has long...
...nag daily at my project leader, urging her to dispense with her preconceptions, Polman’s argument seems applicable. Do my educated Ugandan colleagues at the NGO refuse to commit themselves to a minimal standard of efficiency because they know their slack will be picked up by one of the American, Australian, or Canadian workers here, or compensated for by funding from an international donor? This could be the case, considering that I eventually scheduled the interview with the microfinance director myself, without my project leader’s help...
...Regulars congregate at Kevin Moran's, formerly the Nag's Head, an historic watering hole in stylish Belgravia, to enjoy its open fireplaces in the winter or summertime flowers bursting from the window boxes on its charming Dickensian façade. But Moran says he sees the pub recession just down the road. "There's the Moore Arms - you wouldn't even know it was a pub now - it closed two years ago. Up from there's the Australian - that's been turned into apartments. Opposite, the Shaftsbury Arms is now a Baker and Spice [bakery chain] underneath and flats...
...field of exception to this unseemly prejudice is sport, the real religion of Down Under. The idea of nonelitist sport is, of course, an absurdity. No Australian would waste time watching a football match in which nobody was better than anyone else, or a horse race in which every nag plunked along at exactly the same speed. And (of course) Australians find no contradiction in that. Ours is the meritocracy that dare not speak its name...
...demonstrated his mastery of short fiction. In stories such as “Emergency,” in which a man comes into an ER with a hunting knife buried in his forehead, Johnson illustrated a genius for images that would haunt and nag well after the actual book was put down. He proved he had an almost instinctive understanding of language, forming sentences that were simultaneously lyrical and rough. They seemed to read themselves; the words leapt off the page and hovered in the air. When Johnson turns his attention to a longer narrative his authorial gifts are still...