Word: thingness
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...thing that should have raised suspicions is that the bank's review of its own investments caused it to pull $250 million from a Madoff feeder fund, Fairfield Greenwich, just months before Madoff was arrested. Chase took this action because it became "concerned about the lack of transparency," and its due diligence "raised doubts" about Madoff's operation...
...need more of to make progress - particularly when it comes to the exchange of health information between hospitals. Try getting any two offices in any industry to integrate their computer systems so that all the software can talk to all the other software, and now imagine doing the same thing over a network of thousands of hospitals...
...been working on these issues for decades, but it's only recently that we've seen organic food at grocery stores all over the country. What do you think pushed the local/organic issue from a niche thing into a mass movement...
...other hand, that whole bridge-between-East-and-West thing is a bit of a cliché; every Western leader who has ever given a speech in Istanbul has made that point. If Obama wants to be different, he may need another location. "Turkey is a safe choice, but not an inspired one," says the Arab diplomat. "It's like shooting terrorists from a Predator drone - you get the job done, but you don't really engage with people on the ground...
...that's prompted a backlash from opponents who believe the goal should be getting France to practice the color-blind promise of the Republic - not swapping it for U.S.-style multiculturalism and affirmative action. "Even if it's out to do the right thing, positive discrimination remains discrimination, and classifying people by race and ethnicity is in a manner itself racism," argues Malek Boutih, former head of France's seminal civil rights group S.O.S. Racism, and now a member of the Socialist Party's national bureau. "You don't surrender your principles because they are being abused in practice...