Word: nervously
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...keep pushing the decimal point over to the right - without their "superiors" knowing about it until it's way too late. Nick Leeson taught us that in the '90s, and now, in just the same way, so has Jérôme Kerviel. And if that makes you nervous in this, the age of financial exotica, it should...
What has to be making them nervous is that more and more of the Democratic establishment, particularly on Capitol Hill, is breaking rank with the Clintons?despite the fact that she is leading in the polls and, if elected, may be disinclined to forgive turncoats. Kennedy's defection followed those of 2004 Democratic nominee John Kerry (along with many of his biggest fund raisers) and Vermont's Pat Leahy. Obama also counts among his growing list of supporters Senators such as Tim Johnson, Kent Conrad, Ben Nelson and Claire McCaskill, as well as governors Janet Napolitano and Kathleen Sebelius...
When she saw Letterman picketing, Shore was crushed. "I watched him from the bay window here," she would recall years later, frail and shaking from a nervous disorder and sitting in the empty showroom at the Comedy Store. "I was taken aback. I was crying. Three and a half years working with him, every night. I called him that night at his apartment. I was totally choked up. And he said, 'Those comedians are my friends. And they'll be my friends for the rest of my life.' I said, 'I'm sorry to hear that, David.'" Says Argus Hamilton...
...works to decide if an investment is worth the risk. He's the guy who uses phrases like "enterprise culture" as if they meant something. And the thing is, the real Mitt Romney is actually a likable guy, and maybe even an electable one in a nation nervous about the possibility of a looming recession. But for that to happen, Romney is going to have to show a degree of courage he has mostly lacked this campaign cycle. He is going to have to stop worrying about who he should be, and just continue to be the guy he really...
...says he hasn't rented or sold a house in four or five years. "The main reason we don't have any business is that the people who come here don't care - they just break the gate and occupy the house. Some people arrange this." He is nervous, afraid to say anything more...