Word: turning
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Bryan Martin had always wondered what it would be like to run his own business, but it wasn't until insurance giant Zurich opted to shut down its regional Indianapolis office where he sold insurance that he decided to turn his pipe dream into a reality...
...those money-saving tax deductions and perks can quickly turn into profit-bleeding blunders that can threaten the very survival of a business. The most common mistakes: poor record-keeping, questionable deductions, failing to make quarterly tax payments to Uncle Sam and putting expenses on the wrong lines on a tax return. (See 10 perfect jobs for the recession - and after...
...David Hajdu’s chronicle of the folk generation, “Positively Fourth Street” tells the story of a time back in the early ’60s—before the electric controversy, the motorcycle accident, and all the other events that would eventually turn him into legend—when a young Bob Dylan hung out at London’s Troubadour Club, heckling an Israeli woman’s performance. “Now there’s something you don’t see every day—a Jewish folk singer...
...weeks. It appeared in newspapers and magazines from “The New York Times” to “Entertainment Weekly,” and “Gawker” posted its first round of coverage at 1:19 a.m—a smooth turn-around on the 12:40 a.m. event. But should one phoneme make that much of a difference...
...Nobel Peace Prize, presented prospectively - a triumph of hope over inexperience - threatens to become a central metaphor of Barack Obama's turbocharged political career. He seems fated to be feted for who he is not (George W. Bush) and who he might turn out to be, but not for things he has actually done. This is dangerous stuff, politically. It almost guarantees disappointment. So the prize presents him with an immediate challenge: How does he go about actually earning it? The foreign policy that Obama favors, patient diplomacy on a multitude of fronts, requires qualities of wisdom, horse-trading...