Word: shelteredness
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More strikingly, however, the meaning of "vested interests" suddenly became clear. For him, income from vested interests includes interest earnings in savings accounts like IRAs. My telephonic Brownie had meant that people who earn interest, in this case in tax-sheltered accounts, would pay more. But he was so caught...
It's kind of sad, really. The stuffed Maurice Sendak doll calls himself a "Wild Thing," but you can bet he never goes out. The dancing Coke can only dances with himself. (Besides, he needs batteries.) Our stuffed Madeleine doll is no competition. She's led a relatively sheltered life...
In addition, Tec found that many of the rescuers had a history of doing good deeds before the war -- some visiting people in the hospital, others collecting books for poor students, still others taking care of stray animals. "They just got into the habit of doing good," she says. "If...
Perhaps most astounding of all, the majority of the rescuers believe that the gift of goodness can be passed on. "It is like flowers growing in a certain soil," says Helena Melnyczuk, 71, who with her brother Orest, 67, and their father sheltered Jews in their house, across the street...
The media, outnumbering the athletes by only 7 to 2, were quite rightly a % little lower down. The press settled in the sulfurous industrial area of La Lechere (now a center for phlebology), and the TV crews a little higher up, in the picturesque village of Moutiers. Highest of all...