Word: okaying
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...booth’s gruff New Yorker. Even as the plane was running out of gas and was in grave danger of crashing, the Colombian co-pilot did not assert the need for the plane to land. When asked, according to the flight log, “Is that okay with you and your fuel,” the co-pilot merely responded, “I guess so. Thank you very much.” Gladwell closed the story, and his talk, with a description of the miscommunication that lasted to the very end of the flight...
...minutes later, with the Crimson a man down, Watkins followed with his second goal of the night. As the zamboni came on to clean the ice for a second time, Harvard went to the locker room staring at a 6-1 deficit. “I thought we played okay, but for some reason or another, everything that North Dakota was shooting was going into the net,” Fraser said. “If you look back to our playoff series against Quinnipiac last year, we actually beat them 11-0. And then the next night they came...
...cantina, guys getting drunk and singing with a bottle of tequila,” Suros said. “Many people in Mexico, especially the high society stopped drinking. It was for the peasants, the workers. The United States started drinking it. Then tequila became okay to drink again.” As to past prejudices about the quality of tequila, Suros explained that poor tequila was produced beginning with the outbreak of World War II. The liquor exports of Europe declined and because tequila was made in the Americas its sales skyrocketed in the United States. But demand severely...
...COLEMAN CAMPAIGN: WE LEAD BY 2,200 VOTES!*** ***(Okay, Maybe Not, but Al Franken Does Not Hold a Lead in the Recount...
...wise to hold off. "The government basically said, 'You'd be a complete idiot to buy an apartment right now because we're going to make sure that prices drop like a stone,'" says the investment bank analyst. "Now the government is telling them it's not just okay to buy, it would be a great time to buy and the banks will be happy to lend to you. Of course people will start buying again." In other words, having deliberately caused much of the problem in the first place with an eye to restructuring the country's economy, Beijing...