Word: papered
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...news surrounding the $700 billion congressional bailout appears to have had a significant effect on shoppers' outlooks. At the end of September, 79% of consumers said they were expecting bad economic times in the year ahead, up from 57% in early September. "It's hard to pick up the paper and not be transported back to 1932," says Sievers. "It's a volatile environment, but we think last week...
...Sweet Chariot”)“Cheng HO, sweet carrier, going for the old endzonnnnnne,Cheng HO (Cheng HO!), sweet carrrrrriiieerrr, goinnnggg for the old end zone.”I wish you could hear these dulcet sounds, but alas, we have not developed the technology to allow papers to talk and sing—yet. (Did you see Harry Potter? If wizards can do it, surely Bill Gates can, too!)This, my friends, is how you cheer. I’ve seen many students coming out to the recent home football matches. They sport their fancy...
...Marguerite Simon sat on her front porch on Egania Street in the Ninth Ward. Spread out on the bushes along the path to the front door of her small home was an American flag, drying in the sun. The tiny, small-boned woman wearing rubber boots and a paper mask, had smoothed out the crumpled, wet flag that had draped her late husband's coffin...
...look convincingly male. Also, it's harder for MTFs to pass than FTMs: men who become women still have large hands and bigger frames. The less-convincing appearance of MTFs probably explains part of the reason they earn so much less after they transition. Still, the new paper suggests an entirely new vein of research in the field. It also suggests that if you're thinking about changing sexes, you should carefully consider the economic consequences...
Still, the paper is complex, so it's useful to step back first and look at where the larger debate over the gender wage gap stands. After all, isn't that gap narrowing to the point of obscurity? Actually, no. The Russell Sage Foundation published the most authoritative work on the gender wage gap in 2006, The Declining Significance of Gender?. In the book, Francine Blau and Lawrence Kahn, both Cornell economists, show that the average full-time female worker in the U.S. earns about 79% of what the average full-time male worker makes. Women employed full-time actually...