Word: tidbit
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...WHAT TIDBIT TURNED OUT TO BE THE MOST USEFUL? When I was negotiating with [former Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister] Tariq Aziz and Saddam Hussein for the release of two Americans, I found out that Aziz was a Chaldean Catholic. As a Catholic myself, the fact that I proposed that he and I attend a church service together was an advantage in connecting with him that allowed us to make the negotiations for the release of the Americans easier...
...dubious or runs contrary to what you learned in Ec 10, just open your closet and take a long look at your Patagonia fleece jacket.Unfortunately, Chouinard’s nuggets of entrepreneurial wisdom are buried within 260 long pages of hackneyed stories and uninspired one-liners. For each interesting tidbit (managers share the same working space as other employees to promote a sense of equality), Chouinard felt the need to throw in an anecdote (surprise, he thought the air conditioner was a computer) or a hyperbole (employees come to work “on the balls of their feet?...
...This is not so much a commandment as a tidbit of insider information that I, Chris Schonberger, finally feel at liberty to disclose: From time to time, the vending machine in the Canaday Common Room magically opens. I have my suspicions that it coincides with the “Harvest Moon.” I can’t be totally sure. You sort of have to have a sixth sense for it. Lucky for me, my freshman year roommate had the sickest “sixth sense” I’ve ever encountered. One time he looked...
...culinary joys of the fungus are also explored: recipes, and utensils used for serving, shaving and preserving the earthy tidbit, are displayed. At $2,500-4,000 per kilo this season, it's clear why white truffles are referred to as "white diamonds." And like diamonds, they're not much to look at before they're cut, but once prepared by expert hands, can be seductively intoxicating. tel: (39-0577) 803101; www.museodeltartufo.it
...what could go down as either partial vindication or a bad case of dj vu, Secretary of State Colin Powell last week went public with unverified intelligence that Iran is configuring missiles for nuclear warheads. The same day Powell revealed that tidbit, an Iranian exile group, considered a terrorist organization by the State Department, came forward with allegations that Tehran was enriching uranium at a secret site. A spokesman for the Iranian Foreign Minister denied both charges and suggested that U.S. officials "reconsider their intelligence sources." Diplomats regarded the timing of the exile group's claims as suspect since...