Word: unexpectedness
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Nearly all employers these days are too knowledgeable to say anything of the sort. A former senior vice president of one of Madison Avenue's biggest ad agencies tells this story: In February 1996 he got an unexpected summons to the office of a new and younger boss. On his...
Nevertheless, one year later, it is clear that the "people's princess" can never be replaced--not for her sons William and Harry, not for the millions of people who benefited from her charity or basked in her flirtatious charm, and not for those others who saw in Diana's...
So don't let your broker, barber or brother off the hook for that lousy stock tip just yet. But don't dismiss the value of being part of the lawsuit either. After all, the money you lost is gone. Whatever you recover is better than nothing, and it won...
Millions of students taking out loans for college just got some unexpected financial aid. Earlier this month Congress passed legislation that, retroactive to July 1, lowered the interest rate on new, federally guaranteed student loans to 7.46%, from 8.25%. Those with more than $30,000 in debt may soon have...
Yeltsin's mere presence at the rites was an unexpected act of political daring. The idea of national repentance for the murders was dropped months ago after the Patriarch withheld his blessing, and most leading politicians, with the exception of the ambitious Alexander Lebed and opposition leader Grigori Yavlinsky, found...