Word: thinks
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...think investors are paying attention to that, and it is hurting the stock," she says, noting that Toll's shares are up only 45% from their March peak...
...shape for her October wedding, Dawn-Samantha Cahill, 25, a production coordinator in New York City, tried every exercise routine she could think of. But the upended positions that yoga required made her feel self-conscious. Running on a treadmill was a bore. And lifting weights was just too difficult. Frustrated, Cahill started overeating instead of exercising, and her weight, on a petite, 5-ft. 2-in. frame, ballooned...
Given all the science that tells us about empathy in animals and in ourselves, why do you think the idea persists that at bottom we're competitive backstabbers? It was established at the beginning of the Industrial Revolution, when probably it was useful to have a picture of humans as competitive and to base the capitalist system on that image. And in doing so, a lot of political ideologues and economists started to forget that we are also a highly social species. The founder of economics, Adam Smith - to his credit - did realize that if you build a system completely...
What happened a year ago on Wall Street is exactly an example of what Smith was warning [about]. Society is not really made to be a purely competitive operation. And I think we have learned that lesson, but I don't know for how long. The whole argument that nature is red in tooth and claw, and for that reason society ought to be like that, is flawed. Because nature is not like that. If you look at our close relatives, you see animals who survive by cooperating. Yes, there is competition. There is dominance, hierarchy. They sometimes fight. They...
...role of the poet as delivered to Brawne in a flirtatious tutoring session.“Bright Star” is a frustrating film. Though it is technically proficient, its narrative failures make the film a chore to sit through. After all, if the two lovers do not think their love worth fighting for, why should a viewer want to watch their tragedy unfold?—Staff writer Bram A. Strochlic can be reached at bstrochl@fas.harvard.edu...