Word: revealed
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...rank-and-file members -- 500,000 since the mid-1970s, 68,000 of those just since Carey's election. This membership dive, along with mismanagement by Carey's plundering predecessors, has wrecked the union's finances. The International lost $58 million in 1992. The union is still slow to reveal its books to its own executive board -- nearly six months passed before this year's first-quarter figures were available -- but an unaudited draft shows a $25 million bath for the first half of 1993. The total net worth of the International is roughly $60 million today, down from...
Berman's work has its place in a long andperhaps wearisome subgenre of cartoon books aboutpets. I remember fondly, for instance--I'veforgotten the author--the relatively recent workEverything I Needed to Know I Learned From MyCat. But maybe I am too quick to reveal mypreferences. This book has the winningillustrations of its type; they might amuse ornauseate you. The book is good for a quickflip-through in Wordsworth, or perhaps as a giftfor a certain kind of disaffected female friend
...house a half-mile across town and onto a foundation they had dug themselves. I discovered this history when my father first took a whack at the white plasterboard of the spare room. My father slammed the hammer's teeth into the wall, peeling away the flimsy board to reveal dark, cobwebbed wood...
...constitutional arguments, there are several other long-term consequences. By opening up Packwood's diaries, the Senate will have sent a message: If you are going to do anything unethical or illegal, just don't write it down. One of the charms of diaries is that ideally, they can reveal deeply private information about a human being that could never be discovered any other way. Historians constantly pore over every word and nuance of these intimate journals of historical figures. To take a long-term view, future generations would suffer tremendously if all this generation left them were musty diaries...
...Seattle a lot. It crops up in sections, my editorial columns--even in Torah discussions at Friday night services. But as I get ready to celebrate the ultimate in cross-coastal happiness (Starbucks, the definitive Seattle coffee roaster, is opening a branch in Boston) I feel the need to reveal a long-held secret...