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...decrepit train station of Vladimir, a military town near Moscow, an army-recruiting center promises a life of adventure for those who sign up. THE ARMY OF RUSSIA - AN ARMY OF PROFESSIONALS, says a billboard, showing a young man in a leather military helmet peering out of a tank scope. Not yet, it isn't. But money always helps...
...frank question: “Do you have any interest in having sex with me?”The film’s greatest strength is its ability to invest the everyday with humor. Brian’s life before meeting Happy is one of limited scope. His job, as he describes it, involves selling less than 10 mattresses a month; his social life consists entirely of family dinners with his sleepy 80-year-old father and visits to his friend Larry’s (Brian Avers) psychological laboratory.But this focus on the mundane never detracts from the movie?...
...John Moody anticipated this problem when he published the first Moody’s Analyses of Railroad Investments in 1909. Moody prefaced the book with a note about its scope, cautioning that it was “in no sense a ‘manual’” and instead a tool to enable investors to “analyze the conditions back of all security values.” Like his future competitors, Moody specifically intended his credit ratings to enable analysis rather than be ends in themselves. Nonetheless, by 1970, when the firm switched...
...Wikipedia article, why read a book? If you can rely on a credible rating for a complex financial security, why do further research? In a narrow sense, the lack of context attendant in these bursts of data leads to small errors, and, on a broader scale, this limited scope contributes to major market failures...
...began her career in TV journalism as a senior producer for Reuters Television. But Logan spoke candidly about aspects of reporting for television that she said still concern her. “The great challenge of TV reporting is to take the full scope of an event and condense it,” Lara reflected. “The simplest [sic] you make a story the less you know, and that’s worthless to me.” As a reporter during conflicts such as the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, Logan said that...