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...plus is, nowhere in your community can you find a pool of single people who are seeking something similar to what you're seeking. And it's a very [large] pool. The negative is, it takes an unbelievable amount of time and attention in order to weed through the whack jobs in that pool. And the time, the 85 emails - you have to have the energy to do it. That's the downside. Also, you have to be aware that one of the great things about Internet dating is, it's practice. So for many women who are first beginning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Getting Naked Again — Dating After Divorce or Widowhood | 2/4/2009 | See Source »

This is where the leader-visionary evolves into the leader-architect. Alignment is one of those buzz words that come loaded with baggage. To some it conjures up a mechanistic world: alignment is what mechanics do to an automobile when the steering is out of whack. But alignment also evokes images of living organisms, as when a chiropractor aligns the body, readjusting the skeletal system to restore it to better balance and integration. The alignment of teams and organizations has more to do with the human side of the term than with its mechanistic counterpart...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Lesson Straight from Mars | 1/29/2009 | See Source »

...good lawyer, you can whack a landlord for a good amount of money,” Haller says. “But I feel bad whacking people, I don’t feel so bad hitting the bank...

Author: By Athena Y. Jiang, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: ‘No One Leaves’ Keeping People Put | 12/11/2008 | See Source »

...research note, analysts at Morgan Stanley pointed to growing redemptions from university endowments that have found their portfolio allocations out of whack, thanks to plunging stock prices - a point reinforced today when Paul Tudor Jones's Tudor Investment Corp announced that it had suspended redemptions on one of its hedge funds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Recession Is Made Official — and Stocks Take a Dive | 12/1/2008 | See Source »

Unnamed McCain aide(s) •Palin is called a "diva" with no "relationships of trust with any of us, her family or anyone else" by •Palin is called "a whack job" by •Palin is described as "going rogue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Paul Slansky's Weekly Index of the News | 10/31/2008 | See Source »

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