Word: unmet
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...sexually numb marriage and you haven't been in any kind of state of erotic awakening for longer than you can remember, and somewhere in there, your trainer starts to look good. It's someone who presents the aspect of the relationship that was an unmet need...
Still, while Thomas' bold idea is a long shot, talk of more modest clawbacks is in vogue on Wall Street. Clawback provisions have long been standard at venture-capital and private-equity firms, where partners are expected to regurgitate past earnings to make good on unmet promises to investors. And wherever outright fraud can be proved, those who benefited can be forced by the courts to disgorge their gains--as investors who withdrew money from Bernard Madoff's apparent Ponzi scheme before it collapsed might discover in the coming months...
...inherits the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression: the financial sector is in ruins; the budget is hemorrhaging red ink; debt-ridden households have clamped down on spending, thereby pulling the rug out from under the economy; unemployment is soaring; the country is in two wars; and the unmet social and environmental needs are vast. These conditions demand a fundamental realignment in strategy that ultimately comes back to taxation: Will we pay for the government we need? Obama's big domestic program, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Plan, proposes doubling renewable-energy production and making public buildings more efficient...
Even drowning one's sorrows may be difficult here in "fiscal Armageddon," as Governor Schwarzenegger has referred to the budget crisis; one of his solutions is a sizable tax on booze. "At a time we should be investing for our unmet needs and stimulating the economy, we're going in the other direction," says California state treasurer Bill Lockyer, a Democrat. "Every day, we go deeper in the hole...
...home cooks reveled in their convenient new food storage box, plastics innovators pounced on an unmet need for containers that would seal in food and keep refrigerators smelling fresh. New Hampshire native Earl S. Tupper launched Tupperware in the 1940s, and by the following decade, he was marketing the containers via Tupperware "parties" where salespeople could demonstrate the distinctive "burp" that guaranteed longer lives for leftovers. (Tupperware was a roaring success; Tupper sold the company for $9 million in 1958.) For Americans who didn't want to purchase an entire line of pastel plastic containers, Dow Chemical started selling Saran...