Word: penchant
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Given real estate's penchant for shorthand (think condo, co-op, comps and COFI), we should add a term for friends who buy houses together. Let's call them communal homeowners...
...more recently, as the team's form has dipped, some painful memories have returned. Iraqi sports officials no longer torture players for poor results, but they seem to have inherited Uday's penchant for dishing out summary, collective punishment. Last month, when the team failed to qualify for the Beijing Olympics, the Iraqi Football Federation disbanded the entire squad - players, coaches and support staff...
...addition to his penchant for making disparaging remarks about immigrants and southern Italians, Bossi, 66, has targeted national symbols. In 1997 he declared that the Italian tricolore flag was best used as toilet paper. The Northern League repeatedly aims its ire at the government bureaucracy in Rome and at the underdeveloped regions in Italy's south, which it says are siphoning off tax dollars with public subsidies. While Bossi was ranting on Sunday against southern teachers being sent to work in northern schools, he cited the national anthem, whose words were written in 1847 by Goffredo Mameli to encourage...
...calls alerting them to overnight cables and demanding to know what should be done. ''It's always a little off-putting to get slammed up against the wall at 7:30 in the morning,'' says an admiring Richard Murphy, who worked with Oakley during the Reagan Administration. Oakley's penchant for stating, in his soft Louisiana drawl, exactly what he thinks can get him into trouble. As Ambassador to Zaire, he was nearly kicked out of the country when his unvarnished reports angered President Mobutu Sese Seko. ''He doesn't say thank you. He doesn't say please...
...between Syria and Iran on the one hand, and American and Israel on the other, that would settle the cold war for the Middle East. This means that the United States would have to give up once and for all its project for a "new" Middle East, and its penchant for regime change. That might happen on its own in November if Barack Obama becomes President. But a package deal would also have to solve the Iranian nuclear issue, map out the future of post-American Iraq, solve the Syrian-Israeli conflict, the Lebanese-Israeli conflict and the Palestinian-Israeli...