Word: thingness
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...history. It must be hard to choose, but does anyone particularly stand out in your memory? Dinah Washington and Sarah Vaughan - I have to mention them. They gave me a certain feeling I hadn't had, being raised in the Catholic church. Dinah Washington - she was a totally different thing that I wasn't used to hearing. And Sarah Vaughan, I used to get goosebumps every night playing with...
...Administration already bogged down in a health-care debate and with its hands full of domestic economic problems persuade Americans that nation-building in Afghanistan is the right thing to do? Tellis believes Obama needs to make the case that U.S. security necessitates it. "Ultimately, it's not about Afghanistan for its own sake, but as an instrument to defeat al-Qaeda, and defend the [American] homeland," he says...
...thing to ask for more time, and quite another to explain how, for instance, creating a mobile-banking network helps the fight against al-Qaeda. The benefits of nation-building programs are often indirect, and hard to measure. (Ultimately, the hope is that access to banking will make farmers less reliant on loans from drug smugglers, and so less likely to grow opium, which helps finance al-Qaeda and the Taliban.) (Read "Is the Taliban Stockpiling Opium...
...thing not to emphasize cost-cutting because you think it's a political loser. But it's another thing not to do cost-cutting because you think it's a political loser. If reform simply expands a system of unaffordable care, then the town-hall crazies will have a legitimate point. Then Obamacare really will make the crisis worse...
...professionals. When he got an interview as a human-resources assistant in a government ministry, he was confident of getting the job - until he encountered the interviewer. "I was more knowledgeable than he was, and I was supposed to be his assistant," says Kosar. He was rejected. The same thing had happened to most of the other graduates in his scholarship program. "Thousands of graduates are coming out every year with talent and skills, but they cannot get jobs because those in higher posts are not professionals, so they are threatened by the younger generations who really know something...