Word: roosts
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...language of Malcolm X, West said if America does not accept the existence of society’s past sins and attempt, once and for all, to atone for them then “let’s see if the chickens won’t come home to roost...
...dimensional image of America here? Malkovich: Well, it's a pretty big country, with an extraordinarily disparate population. It takes incredible hubris to want to explain the place. There is room for lots of opinions. But if someone says Sept. 11 was the chickens coming home to roost, I ask how killing Ghanaians and French and the other 62 nationalities in those buildings served that purpose. If it was a taste of our own medicine, I wonder who's the doctor, and what's the prescription. TIME: Why do you live in France? Malkovich: Because I love it here. People...
...perennial, To Ogden Nash on his centenary, or centennial. He trod 'mongst giants like Eliot and cummings and Thomas and Kazantzakis and Frost and Yevtushenko and Neruda and Schwartz (now all dead) In a day when poets were not only renowned but read. True, Nash did not quite roost in the exalted company of these Everest nest-dwellers, But he published more than 20 volumes of extremely popular light verse, and if he dwelt in cellars, they were best-cellars. He wrote, he lectured, and he was not too arch or arty To appear as a panelist...
SPRIGGS: People forget the human capital. The G.I. Bill created much more human capital, which came home to roost in the '60s when the economy took off. The level of inequality in skills in the U.S. shrank. You had a more skilled work force, so when you dip down into the bench, you continue to have productive workers...
...projected annual rate of return is more than 7.5%, a shortfall could bite into future earnings, and "you should be concerned," says Lehman Bros. accounting expert Robert Willens. Watch for off-balance-sheet liabilities, a fancy term for financial risks that the company hopes will never come home to roost, and for development costs that are capitalized instead of expensed. These factors don't mean you should shun a stock; they mean you should check its teeth. Firms with aggressive pension assumptions include IBM and SBC Communications. Among the off-balance-sheet biggies are General Electric and Fannie...