Word: pointedness
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The historian Thomas Carlyle once claimed that "All true work is sacred." To which the philosopher John Stuart Mill responded: "Work ... is not a good in itself. There is nothing laudable in work for work's sake." Ever since, a debate has been raging in Western societies about the nature...
So what went wrong? Nothing, the company says. As Microsoft sees it, the vast majority of the anticompetitive activities the appeals court pointed to occurred far in the past. Microsoft says it is double-checking current licenses and does not believe the ruling will have much impact on the company...
And then all hell broke loose. An airport security officer grabbed the poster from my hand and demanded to know where I got it. I pointed to the bar and said that I had come to an agreement with the manager. He marched me into the shop and confronted the...
During an Oval Office meeting in January, Bush said to Kennedy, "When you walk out of here, the press is going to try to divide us. Can we put that off to the side and work together?" Kennedy agreed--and then made good on the promise, refusing to be drawn...
When I was done spying on Joel, I gave him a quick rundown on what I had seen. He was fine about the book proposal. He'd been having second thoughts about it anyway. He had an explanation for the $112.76 that involved the high price of American CDs in...