Word: unexpectedness
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The answer depends on who fills that last slot—the unexpected vacancy left by Winokur, whose departure, frankly, is long overdue. (Now, when is Doris Kearns Goodwin going to follow his more dignified example?) Rubin chairs the executive committee at Citigroup. He continues the alarming business-appointee trend...
“Jeff’s move is unexpected and since he is irreplacable, it is quite a shock,” said Hariri Professor of International Political Economy Dani Rodrik.
Yet there are some job hazards Carmona may not be so prepared for. His record as an administrator is mixed. After he took over Pima County's struggling public-health-care system in 1997, it continued to lose millions of dollars, and he was forced to resign. What's more...
It seems we are always learning something new and unexpected about the medications we take, and last week the surprise for me was about aspirin. A lot of people, it turns out, are born with--or are developing--a resistance to aspirin. This is not the kind of resistance that...
It was meant to be a simple raid to roust some "illegal settlers." On March 27 Tsadiqui Hussain, the lean and weary police chief of Faisalabad, Pakistan, was told by superiors that his officers were needed for some routine arrests. Hussain didn't think much of it. Faisalabad, in the...