Word: performative
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...best course of action. If you have one of those final club-hopping TFs, his presence at a party would make even a slurred sentence way too sketchy. Leave immediately. If you spot your crush across the room right as you begin to hop up on the keg to perform the gargoyle, do a leapfrog instead and stick to solo cups. At the other end of the spectrum, family weddings have an opposite effect. Take advantage of the opportunity to teach your grandmother how to jerk, even though these people undoubtedly know you very well.Now that you?...
...best course of action. If you have one of those final club-hopping TFs, his presence at a party would make even a slurred sentence way too sketchy. Leave immediately. If you spot your crush across the room right as you begin to hop up on the keg to perform the gargoyle, do a leapfrog instead and stick to solo cups. At the other end of the spectrum, family weddings have an opposite effect. Take advantage of the opportunity to teach your grandmother how to jerk, even though these people undoubtedly know you very well...
...recent signing ceremony, Chilean Finance Minister Andrés Velasco noted his view about good long-term macroeconomic forecasting: Look around a Harvard PhD classroom. Countries with students in such classes are a good indicator of good performance 10 to 20 years ahead. In the Harvard of 20 years ago, that would have led to forecasting that China and South Korea would perform well. The forecast for Chile already looks good, and it should be better. Neither Chile nor Harvard won the lottery, but, together, we are doing something better—not relying on chance but investing in some...
...great to pick up from last year and get back into it,” said Olson of her first race. “I think we made a pretty big statement about how we hope to perform later...
...underperforming treatments, and this is not so unreasonable. Consider the complications that can result from surgery, and the antibiotic resistance that can develop from an improperly administered regimen—especially if the antibiotics aren’t doing anything a sugar pill couldn’t do. Doctors perform over 600,000 back surgeries a year to the tune of $20 billion. Surely some of the savings from eliminating back surgeries alone could go a long way toward funding health-care reform. This idea gains even more traction when you consider that, if subjected to the FDA approval process...