Word: reckoner
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Where does money come on your list? Will it be the sole standard against which you reckon your success? Where will your family come on your list? How many days and nights, weeks and months, will you separate yourself from them, buried in your work, before you realize that you've removed yourself from an important part of your life? And if you're a male doctor, how will you relate to women? Women as patients, as nurses, as fellow doctors-and later as students...
...York-the Tough." He was pleased that Gallery Owner Jacob Weintraub had put the sculpture outdoors "because there it comes in contact with the people." New Yorkers were pleased too: they often stopped to run their hands over the sculpture's smooth, glossy surface. But Poncet did not reckon just how tough New York could be: one night last week unseen vandals pulled Ubatuba from its pedestal, smashing it into bits...
...rebellion has spread to 15 of the country's 28 provinces, and while guerrilla activity is most intense in the remote areas bordering on Iran in the west and Pakistan in the east, the regime has been forced to tighten security everywhere. Foreign diplomats in Kabul reckon that more than 12,000 political prisoners have been jailed. Major intersections in the capital, where an 11 p.m. curfew is in effect, are patrolled by soldiers, and the country's few highways are under heavy guard; eight police checkpoints dot the 115-mile route from the Khyber Pass to Kabul...
...even though the Isles have the home-ice advantage. The best trio of defensemen in hockey (Robinson, Lapointe and Savard), solid goalkeeping from Kenny Dryden, who practices law in his spare time, and the most balanced attack you'll ever see combine to make this squad the force to reckon with in search of Lord Stanley's $48 mug (purchased...
...treasury. But coffee prices have since plummeted from a high of $3.18 per pound to $1.28 as of last week. In addition, increasing amounts of coffee are simply being smuggled out of the country. Official figures on Uganda's coffee income do not exist, but some analysts reckon that the country may have earned as little as $7 million in recent years...