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...insist and insist again, by Vague Generalities. We abhor V.G.s, we skim right past them, we start wondering what kind of C to give from the first V.G. we encounter; and as they pile up we decide C- (Harvard being Harvard, we do not give D’s. Consider C- a failure). Why? Not because they are a sign the student does not know the material, or hasn’t thought creatively, or any of that folly. They simply make tedious reading. “Locke is a transitional figure.” “The whole...
...week hold the bun or foccacia on their sandwich, or ask for only one slice. ABP’s new “zero trans fat” pastry advertisement has increased sales of pumpkin, chocolate chip and blueberry muffins, and Upadhyan says more people are switching to skim milk in their coffee...
...footnotes, where many companies bury bad news. An attentive reader can spot the red flags: inflated growth assumptions for pension assets, a subsidiary controlled by a son-in-law, lots of synthetic leases. Then get your money out. Compare the most recent reports to those of past years, and skim for the new material--if more investors had noticed Enron's infamous Footnote 16 from its 1999 10-K, which described sketchy off-balance-sheet deals, they could have saved millions. And look for onetime charges that appear year after year. "It's a little bit about being a nerd...
Coffee of Choice: Tall skim latte from Starbucks
...reason private jets no longer skim the Himalayas into Kathmandu is not hard to fathom. There is little glamour in the daily bloody shoot-outs between rebels and government forces that dominate the news from Nepal today. Squads of armed police and Royal Nepalese Army soldiers in armored cars and mine-clearing vehicles now guard every street corner in the capital. Gatherings of more than five people?even, Rana assumes, his famous parties?have been outlawed, and the city grinds to a halt every few days as armed police cordon off downtown blocks and break up protests against the crackdown...