Word: roundings
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...kinds of lettuce (light green and dark green). Now the average house is more than 50% bigger, the car is twice as powerful (and there's often more than one), the TV is flat and gets 900 channels, and we expect the grocery store to have strawberries year-round and about 50 flavors of mustard. Small wonder we started charging our life-insurance premiums on our credit cards; we only expected to pay when we died...
...failed capitalism by getting in its way. As if we're the ones who created the sleazy subprime mortgages and exotic derivatives (graded phony AAA by real capitalists) that blew up the system. It's the standard Forbes canon: government and taxes bad; rich people good. The pair dutifully round up free-market evangelists from Smith to Hayek to Friedman to support their apologia but fail to add any real insight. Capitalism works, all right, but not like this...
...34th Street in Manhattan and took a BoltBus to Philadelphia for date night. The bus left on time and was packed with people hunched over their netbooks and PDAs. Even the one bit of trash I saw was upscale: a lipstick-smudged Starbucks cup. And the $20 round-trip fares made it a lot less painful to pay our babysitter when we got home...
...scrappy goal—and two well-executed ones—handed 10th-seeded Harvard a 3-0 win over Monmouth (18-2-2) yesterday on Ohiri Field, moving the Crimson into next Sunday’s third round of the NCAA Tournament...
...results against common opponents were any indication of what was to come, Monmouth had to feel pretty good about its chances. The Hawks came into the game fresh off its first-round, penalty-shootout win over a UConn team that had crushed Harvard, 4-0, earlier in the year...