Word: plucking
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Within a month, the banjo-playing duo were a fixture on the steps of Weld Hall and Widener Library, their pluck entertaining Asian tourists and anyone else who would listen...
...mummified bodies of Pygmies to visitors. But, wrote Polo, "'tis all a lie and cheat. Those ... little men ... are manufactured on the island. There is a kind of monkey on the island which is very small and has a face just like a man's. They take these and pluck out all the hairs except on the beard and chest and then they dry them and stuff them and daub them with saffron until they look like...
...much further along than Gates gives it credit for. "We look at delivering a quantum leap in technology, not just Xbox version 1.5," a Sony spokeswoman said recently. ("Kutaragi's good at rhetoric," Gates says of Sony PlayStation czar Ken Kutaragi.) For all the Xbox's underdog pluck, the PlayStation 2 still has an overwhelming hold on the $25 billion global video-game market: 68% at last count, to Microsoft's 17%; Nintendo has 15%, according to DFC Intelligence, a market-research firm. (See box, following page.) Microsoft doesn't come to the table with a handheld device like Sony...
...many of us students, venturing beyond our department and exploring the connections between our area of study and another is a daunting task. By junior year, with a bit of pluck and brass, most of us have made a few alliances with faculty members. But it is with rare exception that students take seminar-style courses outside our concentrations and make closer connections with members of the senior faculty not in our department. Thus, in the classroom at least, we do not encounter many voices from outside our field...
Almost by definition, his successor and the economy over which he or she presides will start off at a disadvantage, especially if Greenspan fails to steady the rocky economy in the months ahead. Some Fed watchers are worried that the President might pluck from corporate America a CEO with little formal finance background to run the Fed, as he did with John Snow at Treasury. The most likely candidates, though, are Martin Feldstein, a Harvard professor and former head of President Reagan's Council of Economic Advisers (CEA); Glenn Hubbard, dean of Columbia Business School, who ran the CEA during...