Word: sit
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...first met and worked with the great photojoumalist Diana Walker when I covered my first presidential campaign in 1988. We were following Michael Dukakis, and she was generous enough to show a novice where to sit on the bus and how not to be the last person to get one's bags from the campaign plane. She also helped show me how to see--to look for the things that others don't notice...
...European Continent, countries with some of the highest tax rates - like Denmark, Germany and Sweden - sit side by side with those collecting some of the lowest, like Luxembourg and Liechtenstein. That's handy for Europeans who want to work in one country while they live, and save, in another. So execs and entrepreneurs can do business in London while settling in Monaco, the city-state famous for sunshine, glamour and zero tax on income or investment gains. Belgium, where some assets are exempt from capital-gains tax, is peppered with wealthy French escaping a tax rate that...
...transformative education plan should incorporate higher teacher accountability measures, which will have to sit well with the National Education Association (NEA), which unites powerful teachers’ unions and exerts a tremendous amount of control over votes, campaign funds, and school boards...
...Leno, a gregarious and widely admired regular at the club, was one of the early firebrands. Letterman, another top club comic and strike supporter (and a fan of Leno's), thought he was a little out of control. "Jay, bless his heart, couldn't sit still," Letterman recalls of one early mass meeting. "He was behaving like a hyperactive child: jumping up and down, being funny and distracting, to the point where everybody sort of thought, Well, maybe we shouldn't tell Jay about the next meeting...
Leno, a gregarious and widely admired regular at the club, was one of the early firebrands. Letterman, another top club comic and strike supporter (and a fan of Leno's), thought he was a little out of control. "Jay, bless his heart, couldn't sit still," Letterman recalls of one early mass meeting. "He was behaving like a hyperactive child: jumping up and down, being funny and distracting, to the point where everybody sort of thought, Well, maybe we shouldn't tell Jay about the next meeting...