Word: soundness
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...abetted by a cameo from Fake First Son Charlie Harper are horrific. Still, the scariest thing about the whole video might be that Paris' policy recommendations (essentially, declare victory and get the hell out of Iraq; force banks to renegotiate interest rates for homeowners underwater on their loans) actually sound halfway reasonable. But maybe that's just compared to her makeup...
...write this book? It's a tenet of linguistics these days that the relationship between the sound of a word and its meaning is arbitrary and I've always thought that was just crazy. I just think lots of words have physicality. How about the word "wobble"? You think that's arbitrary? When you say the word "wince," you wince. How about that...
...experience suggests that a recession will hit charities hard. In a report released last month, the Giving USA Foundation found that on average during recessions (defined as two quarters of consecutive decline in the gross domestic product, which hasn't yet happened), charitable giving declines 1%. That might not sound too bad, but keep in mind that during nonrecessionary years, charitable giving in the U.S. has increased 4.3% - which means a recession represents a more than 5% swing in the other direction. And it's gotten even worse than that: during the relatively severe downturn of 1974, giving declined...
...After the piece, Previn offered criticism of the performance, with both compliments and suggestions for improvements. Besides calling the trio “absolutely wonderful,” he also offered some finer points, such as where to accent certain notes and how to sound more uniform as a trio by playing the same type of vibrato. “Play to each other’s strengths and not just to your own,” he said. “I wish you luck; I think you will do very well.”Shortly thereafter, a second...
...desire for more government activism is true across the board. All of a sudden, government-provided infrastructure programs - and that's what most of McCain's despised "earmarks" are - don't sound like such a waste of money, especially if they are married to alternative energy sources and conservation (which is why Obama talks constantly about "retrofitting" buildings to conserve energy). All of a sudden, boring bureaucracies like the Securities and Exchange Commission, which have been undermined and underfunded by Republicans, become a crucial bulwark against the rampaging free-market anarchists on Wall Street. This is, as Obama says...