Word: semi
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...possible that the panic never would have happened if Paulson and Federal Reserve officials hadn't allowed Lehman to fail. Although, given how much criticism they got for their semi-bailout of Bear Stearns in March, it's easy enough to see where that decision came from. Less easy to understand is why Paulson initially stubbornly insisted that the bailout bill be structured as an asset-purchase plan - it's still called the Troubled Asset Relief Program, or TARP - rather than as a straightforward recapitalization of troubled banks. Treasury has since switched to the latter approach, so far putting...
Creeping. We all know what it is, and whether or not we’d like to admit it, we’ve all done our fair share of it.However, for the small number of you out there that are completely unaware of this semi-shady social reality, a brief series of examples can serve as quick enlightenment. Creeping is nonchalantly perusing through the Facebook of that girl that sits across from you in section. Or strategically positioning yourself in the dining hall servery to be able to read the details on that guy in your house?...
...Mediterranean, and far from the foot-stomping, castanet-clanging, torero ole-ing that characterizes the nation's more well-known southern coast. As Barlow writes it, Galicia is a misty, mysterious place full of cagey old coots and rustic food fanatics. What better place, then, to embark on a semi-ridiculous, typically male journey. With good humor and shameless enthusiasm, he has written a delicious meat mash note...
...artists like Sun City Girls and Six Organs of Admittance.But these two seemingly divergent forces—Kottke the acoustic virtuoso, Fahey the ambient experimenter—came together with Peter Lang to record an eponymous 1974 LP. Because of Takoma’s relatively limited financial clout and semi-dormant status in the wake of Fahey’s death, this album remains nearly impossible to find, but what thin documentation exists indicates that it’s one (if only one) highlight of both careers. In a way, the album represents the meeting of two tremendously important careers...
...three days before the New Year in late 2006, and I was eating a burger with the traveler and writer Paul Theroux on Oahu's North Shore. Beside us in the rickety little shack was a quintessentially Hawaiian group of Chinese Americans, African Americans, semi-Southeast Asians and kids who could have been any or all of the above, waiting for the dad in the group to bring over their avocado burgers from the counter. It took Paul and me a few seconds to realize that the dad in question - who looked like a skinny teenager - was, in fact...