Word: patronize
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...close Grollier's," commented one patron yesterday, "would be worse than closing University Hall--only it's more human in here...
...close Grollier's," commented one patron yesterday, "would be worse than closing University Hall--only it's more human in here...
...you’re like me—one of these compulsive worriers—you’ve already envisioned your life as a soup kitchen patron. Everywhere you turn the walls are closing in on you as countless pink-pant wearing preppies delight in telling you about their “lucrative summer position” at Goldman or Stanley. But, if their impressive euphemisms for “internship” haven’t yet frightened you, just wait for it: rolling the “I” across their tongue, they drop...
...Unlike their patron, a number of IGC members appear to recognize the Sunni insurgents and the Sadr supporters as an intractable reality - they're rooted in sections of Iraqi society, and won't be eliminated simply through military action. The dilemma facing U.S. officials on the ground is likely to become even more acute in the coming days given the efforts of IGC members to mediate solutions both in Fallujah and in the south. If the U.S. declines to accept those outcomes - which are not exactly palatable to the U.S. given its stated objectives in each case - the result will...
...Compulsive list-keeping is the orderliness of the disorderly. I?m absent-minded; I lose videocassettes, books, film notes, my house keys and, occasionally, my mind. But I am a walking repository of baseball and box office statistics (my patron saints: Bill James and Art Murphy). I can name every winner of the Best Picture Oscar, reflexively - it?s in my muscle or flab memory - from 1928 to the early 90s, at which point short-term memory loss kicks in. Thus it?s no surprise, though it probably is a pity, that I have kept a running...