Word: takers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...thing, Barbara Prentice discovered that her son had at most three beers the evening of his death and his blood-alcohol level was .12, not high enough to impair him, she said. And Adam had always been afraid of heights and was not a risk taker...
...proof, TT therapists would have to sit down for independent testing--something they haven't been eager to do, even though the magician-turned-debunker James Randi has offered more than $1 million to anyone who can demonstrate the existence of a human energy field. (He's had one taker so far. She failed.) A skeptic might conclude that TT practitioners are afraid to lay their beliefs on the line. But who could turn down an innocent fourth-grader? Says Emily: "I think they didn't take me very seriously because I'm a kid." Bad move, as it turned...
...clearly forgotten to delete it from the e-mail. The list included not only grades for all students, but also "the T.F.'s honest personal perceptions of each student," Mathes says. When he looked at the T.F.'s comments about him, he found himself described as "a poor test-taker who was frequently absent and was unable to turn in papers on time." Mathes says he was shocked by the characterization and especially by the fact that it was circulating in administrative circles. "I didn't appreciate my T.F. spreading my scandalous confidences, and I liked it even less when...
...this is the way panics start: denial turns into confusion, and everyone rushes to be first out. If you're nervous, consider playing it safe for a while, especially if you can shift assets without tax consequences, as in a 401(k) plan. If you're a risk taker, look for a spot to start buying in battered Asia. There are plenty of stock mutual funds that target the Pacific Rim. Asia has become the No. 1 destination of traveling Wall Streeters the past few weeks, all of them hoping to find the bottom. We've got to be getting...
...vicarious fulfillment. One wants to see oneself as a good and giving person. There is nothing wrong in that, but it can't be the only goal. The ultimate goal must be a change in the system in which both the giver and taker live." She doesn't like the word charity except in the sense of caritas, love. "Love," she said, "is not based on marking people up by assets and virtues. Love is based on the mystery of the person, who is unfathomable and is going somewhere I will never know...