Word: quainted
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...many managers was to shed lots of employees. Little wonder that the average 32-year-old today has worked for nine companies. And she has probably bought nine brands of shampoo from a dozen drugstores, supermarkets and websites. For many customers, loyalty to a product or retailer seems quaint in an era when buying decisions are made at the click of a mouse...
...They share their secrets and fears because that makes them feel safer, somehow, like they're not alone. Kayoko, Ah and her gang live in the Western district of Osaka, a 40-minute train ride from the city center. An outsider just passing through might think their neighborhood looks quaint. There's a brook crisscrossed by cute footpaths running the length of the street next to this park. Newly remodeled houses with perfectly manicured shrubs shaped like bonsai are just around the corner. These aren't kids driven to the streets by abusive homes or grinding poverty. What Kayoko...
...give everyone your full attention. But the president must put his shoulder into the debate over an economic stimulus package or nothing is going to get done. That's the opinion of members of Congress anyway, who are only getting farther away from compromise. Their debate has an almost quaint pre-war partisan bitterness to it: Democrats say Republican tax cuts are for the rich, and Republicans claim Democratic spending plans are inefficient and wasteful. Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle is saying no bill is better than a bad bill, and House Republican leaders are cranking up the invective, blaming...
...truth, the New Paradigm is the way Americans are sharpening their wits in the presence of great danger. It is the reinstatement of an older model--a pre-Vietnam perspective. You hear that reinstated moral design in Bush's quaint--and artful--use of the word evil. He speaks of "the evil ones" and "the evildoers"--and at first it sounds like the vocabulary of professional wrestling. But Bush means to tell the evil ones that he is as willing as they are to deal in absolutes. The Old Paradigm dismisses the concept of evil as being an ignorant demonization...
Drawbridges are quaint, but they are so medieval. So when city planners in the industrial town of Gateshead, in northeast England, picked a design for a new pedestrian and bike bridge to connect Gateshead with the historic city of Newcastle across the winding river Tyne, they decided that a break from tradition was in order. For most of the day, a single steel arch vaults high above the water, fixed by 18 harplike suspension cables to a 413-ft.-long, curved pathway below. When a boat approaches, however, the entire bridge pivots to one side. As the lower deck rises...