Word: rente
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Effie in last year's Dreamgirls. All good movie musicals give us a lovable character to invest in - in Once it's Hansard's tender, awkward busker, in Hairspray Blonsky's cheerful teen reformer and Travolta's well-intentioned big momma. Contrast these huggable characters with, say, 2005's Rent, which celebrates broke, dysfunctional pseudo bohemians who you wish would just shut...
After using much of his gap year to work as a paralegal and an aide to his congressman in Washington D.C.—paying his own rent and cooking his own meals along the way—he says his experience allowed him to experience some of the “larger responsibilities of life...
...gulp theory. The basic laws of restaurant economics state that meals keep getting bigger because food is cheap and fixed overhead--staff, rent, equipment--is the same no matter how much is piled on your plate. So giant servings are a win-win: you pay a little extra for a lot more food, and the restaurant makes extra profit. It's the same rule that created tubs of movie popcorn, venti-size coffee cups and Burger King's Meat'normous Omelet Sandwich. It's why no restaurant will ever give you a reasonably sized stack of pancakes...
...greatest academic institution in the world” may not be as much of a dichotomy as one may think; a college degree is not going to protect a single one of us from being evicted in the future when we don’t have enough for the rent...
...someone like Felix Mururi, a Kenyan in his early 30s, the hip pump made small-scale farming more profitable than working in a city. Recovering his investment within three months (the goal for every KickStart product), he felt confident enough to rent more land. But Fisher and Moon are doing more than selling a pump. They're trying to market a new model of development. Their aim, says Fisher, is "to create dignity rather than dependency and to leave in place a sustainable and dynamic private sector...