Word: takeing
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...supernatural ground rules ("Demons can only rise or return on a full moon -- that's why the spectral energy is gathering ^ . . ."). But the show delivers a stronger dose of pure horror than anything else on TV. In the season's two-hour premiere episode, Lucifer tried to take over a convent in France. Before the overstuffed plot spun out of control, there were some startling set pieces: a possessed nun literally climbing the walls and patients in a mental ward going wild and murdering the staff. The show also managed to write one of its regular characters...
...precaution," says M. Granger Morgan, head of the department of engineering and public policy at Carnegie-Mellon University. But after last week, earthquakes are going to be viewed as a much more persistent risk than they were before. That will force many communities to choose which risks to take seriously. Says Bruce Bolt, a seismologist at the University of California, Berkeley: "If you have only a certain amount of dollars to spend on risk mitigation in a particular area, do you spend it on seismic upgrading or on asbestos removal...
Readers will have to take sides here, or struggle to find a compromise somewhere in the middle ground. For beneath its endlessly diverting surface, Eco's novel constitutes a litmus test for ways of looking at history and the world. Casaubon, the narrator, recalls himself as a younger man, when he was willing to take facts at face value, to be what he calls incredulous. He recognizes and scorns another manner of thinking: "If two things don't fit, but you believe both of them, thinking that somewhere, hidden, there must be a third thing that connects them, that...
...become a cliche that the Indians would have made out like bandits if they had merely invested the $24 they got at 8% (let alone in Fidelity's Magellan mutual fund). They'd have had $32 trillion by now. But the point is, they didn't take cash and invest it, they took trinkets. Today we're taking Nintendo games and Honda Preludes...
Call me un-American for likening cars to trinkets -- it's un-American not to take cars very seriously. But consider the irony as you call me un-American from behind the wheel of your $45,000 Porsche...