Word: throwings
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...reasons are well known. Debt-fueled and gluttonous, bankers around the world took wild risks that their bosses and regulators failed to stop. Throw in Bernard Madoff's massive fraud, and trust right now is as scarce as good credit. According to the Chicago Booth/Kellogg School Financial Trust Index, a new quarterly measure of Americans' confidence in financial institutions, faith in banks - on a scale of 1 to 5, where 1 denotes no trust and 5 complete confidence - fell from 2.95 to 2.8 in the first quarter of this year; trust in bankers slipped from 2.6 to 2.5. Things...
...Extinction," but the article does not - and cannot - say that [April 13]. Climate change is mentioned only in passing, and the major causes of extinction are clearly shown to be deforestation and encroachment on habitat. The pictures in "10 Species on the Brink" show nine truly endangered species, then throw in the polar bear, which is 10 times as numerous as any other animal depicted, to try to make the climate-change link. An otherwise fine issue on extinction is thus marred by a gratuitous climate-change reference that is inapplicable and misleading. Fred Gray, SPRINGFIELD...
...that contribute 11% of Australia's greenhouse-gas emissions, kangaroos are naturally low greenhouse-gas emitters. The industry got a boost last fall when Ross Garnaut, Prime Minister Kevin Rudd's top climate-change adviser, issued a global-warming report urging Australians to chuck their beef and lamb and throw more roo on the barbie...
...many of the killer bylines only popped up occasionally. "They were willing to throw tons of money at writers, but they couldn't figure out how to use them," says a former staffer. "They all got about two stories in the magazine. They killed one of David Margolick...
Furthermore, class quality on the whole suffers from individual indifference. After all, if we don’t pay attention to anything but vital concepts, why should professors attempt to engage us anymore? Why should they add details or throw in a joke when we’re not looking to be interested? Surely, the prospect of lecturing to 200 metallic screens is a discomfiting one, and even more so when they know that an awkward non-response to a question in lecture means that 200 people are logged onto gchat...