Word: specializing
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Sweet, who once served as a special projects officer with the National Security Agency, has been hopping between employers and even countries for much of his professional life. After serving as a nuclear submarine officer on the USS Georgia in the 1990s, Sweet opted for finance over an offer to teach at the Naval Academy, according to his mother Carolyn Sweet...
...mails exchanged between the governor and his girlfriend, they trip over themselves to praise the other's virtues. She was "special and unique," "glorious"; he was a man of emotional generosity who "brought happiness and love to my life." These two humanitarians were engaged not only in worshipping each other's high-mindedness but also in destroying another woman's home, hobbling her children emotionally and setting her up for humiliation of a titanic proportion. The squalor and pain that resulted from the Sanford and Ensign midlife crises make manifest a bleak truth that the late writer Leonard Michaels once...
...need for men to stay with their children: "We need fathers to step up, to realize that their job does not end at conception; that what makes you a man is not the ability to have a child but the courage to raise one." (See snapshots from a very special wedding...
...strive to get that deal, but we tend to devalue the object after we purchase it. For many things, the biggest charge we get is that transaction itself. Retailers and marketers strive to make us think we are scoring good deals. They make you think that you're special because you've been able to score this deal. But you need to think, really: Why are you so smart that you're not paying the so-called full price? And in fact you need to look carefully, because many times you are. (See how Americans are spending...
...fire at a slot-machine hall in Dnipropetrovsk in eastern Ukraine. After the fire brought national attention to an industry that was already widely frowned upon, lawmakers pounced. The legislation they passed places a temporary ban on gambling while plans are drawn up to restrict gambling to special zones, most likely in Crimea on Ukraine's southern Black Sea coast. (See pictures of Vladimir Putin's Patriotic Youth Camp...