Word: reflect
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...brothers have long been ahead of the curve. The exuberant furniture designs dreamt up by Humberto, 54, and Fernando, 45, reuse everything from old rope to soft toys. However fanciful or arty, their work starts from the materials they find, testing properties and limitations. In abstracted form, the pair reflect the zany practicality they see on the poorer streets of São Paulo, their hometown laboratory...
...good reasons, but by the end, people go in simply because it is going going up.” Buffett, who announced last year that he plans to give away the bulk of his fortune to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, told the audience to continually reflect on their long-term priorities, and to not only look for short-term gains. “There’s nothing more satisfying in life than helping someone become bigger and better than they thought they could be,” he said. On Thursday afternoon, the students heard presentations from...
...ever going to be turned around, now is the time to do it. He has vowed to call a special session of the legislature shortly after his inauguration to "pass ethics reforms with real teeth" and has promised to institute a variety of 10- to 31-point plans that reflect his policy wonkiness. As he put it on Saturday: "The rest of the country, keep your eyes on Louisiana." You should probably keep your eyes on Bobby Jindal...
...lack of order and refinement in the world to which Pinsky is reacting. His diction is carefully designed to extract maximum emotion with minimal effort, and allusions to current events permeate the pages. Most poems are composed of short stanzas that propel the poetry at a fast clip and reflect the spontaneous nature of Pinsky’s thoughts. Pinsky’s confusion emanates from each page as he jumps from idea to idea with each successive couplet. Each poem, he writes, “is acting dumb...in a smart-ass way involving the contradiction of naming...
...Thus when I reflect on the paragons of personal style in today’s world, I focus, not on women who dress well (style doesn’t necessarily have to have a positive connotation), but instead on people who we as a viewing public know are not taking advice from anyone about how they dress. They, in an age of micromanaged, pressurized women, are taking their cues from no one but their own crafty little brains. They take no prisoners and for this you must admire them...