Word: want
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...book's introduction, you mention how you omitted certain details. The consensus seemed to be that the specific means Masons use to recognize each other - handshakes, the specific wording of parts of the ritual - should not be divulged. You don't want some fake Mason coming to your lodge and talking their way into your meetings...
...members of your lodge react when you told them you were writing a book? I didn't really go out of my way to publicize that I was doing it because I didn't want any undue attention. I didn't want people saying "Write about this" or "Don't write about this." I did discuss the book with a few people from my lodge, and while I was writing it, I had a number of Masons look it over to make sure I wasn't putting my foot in my mouth...
...little sickmaking to watch the undergraduates fawn over Langdon - as if! And I want to know who provides cell-phone service for Brown's characters, because they can make calls even when they're underground...
...your financial soul. Because it gets information directly from your bank, it can draw and redraw colorful pie charts and bar graphs that give you a clear picture of the many ways in which your money is seeping away - without you having to do much at all. If you want to know how you managed to spend $2,000 on food last month, click on "Food." Bingo! A new graph, breaking down the details - including the drinks, the fast food and the mid-afternoon coffee runs - suddenly appears. Mint also sends perky little reminders about when your credit-card bills...
...Lehman for day-to-day financing found themselves unable to do business because their accounts with Lehman's U.K. subsidiary were frozen. Similar dislocations played out around the world. Before long, financial institutions were paralyzed by fear. They simply didn't trust each other anymore, and didn't want to lend to each other. The financial system proved too fragile to handle the stress. (See 25 people to blame for the financial crisis...