Word: vested
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...many Russians look at terrorism. It shows one of the two women who allegedly bombed the Moscow subway: a cherubic teenager smirking as she waves a pistol in the air. The image of the stereotypical jihadi - the masked or bearded zealot holding a Kalashnikov or wearing an explosive vest - suddenly morphed into a more ambivalent yet still terrifying menace...
...back with large pieces of its own 2007 investigations into the attack. It concluded that the Reuters employees had joined up with several armed insurgents on a day that had been filled with attacks on U.S. troops in the vicinity. One knelt to take a photograph, without wearing any vest or other apparel indicating he was a reporter. From the Apache, the camera was mistaken for an RPG launcher. The Apache crews had "neither reason nor probability to assume that neutral media personnel were embedded with enemy forces," a probe concluded...
...internship at a Wall Street firm, but whom the film helpfully tells us is actually a stock broker there. Painted from the start as “the good guy” in a depraved world full of cut-throats and egotists, Fielding is dating the lovely Beth Vest (Alexis Bledel of “Gilmore Girls” and “Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants”). Bryan Greenberg (“One Tree Hill”) is Daniel Seaver, the nerdy yet hunky computer guy at the brokerage firm whom Tommy gives a shot...
...Ameritrade's Tomczyk is keeping his commission plans close to the vest. "We will definitely be monitoring this," he says. "We don't like losing, and if we need to respond, we'll respond." Tomczyk adds that his firm would even take some hits to profits to hold the line. "It's about growth in the long term and being competitive first and foremost," he says. "If that means your profits get squeezed [in the short term], your profits get squeezed." (See the worst business deals...
Finally, remember that environment helps lead people to act the way they do. When a hospital administrator in San Francisco wanted to reduce the number of mistakes nurses make in administering medication, she realized the main culprit wasn't carelessness but constant interruption. The solution: a bright-orange medication vest that told everyone, including doctors, to leave nurses alone so they could focus. At first, nurses hated the tacky vest--until medication errors dropped...