Word: wintered
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...stuff we fill our lives with, it isn't necessary. It's so far from like, "I buy food for my kids and we eat it and we don't freeze in the winter." It's so far from that. Part of me feels like if people go back to basics they'll start to see that. You have a job and then you don't even make enough for the s--- you even own. You don't even get the pride of saying I have this job and because of it I have this car. I have this...
...stiff apology is a second insult," G.K. Chesterton argued, and a coerced one already trades at a discount, repentance offered only in exchange for immunity from further prosecution. This winter we got to watch A-Rod explain his doping and Michael Phelps explain that bong and various presidential appointees account for their tax returns and Republican Party chair Michael Steele beg Rush Limbaugh's forgiveness for telling the truth. Even the Pope, who forgives people for a living, has been having trouble: he had to apologize for ever accepting the lame nonapology of an excommunicated bishop who declared that "there...
After the $180 billion AIG bailout initiated last summer, the $700 billion financial-system booster last fall and the $878 billion stimulus package this winter, convincing Americans that their money isn't being wasted is no easy task. Geithner has said the government may put up as much as $1 trillion in loans and guarantees to subsidize the sale of the toxic assets to private investors. Though the government could get back the money if the assets start trading again, many Americans see it going down a sinkhole. Says Democratic pollster Mark Mellman: "There's a narrative out there...
...classic methods of studying headaches involve comparing the number of people coming into emergency rooms for headache-related causes in the winter as opposed to the summer, or to ask patients to keep diaries. But these methods don’t necessarily illustrate the triggers of headaches...
...were to ask how many people came to Harvard Health Services every month of the year it would be obvious that headaches are much worse in the winter, because that’s when the students are around. But in the summer, miraculously they would all go away,” Mukamal said. “In our case, we are not reliant on the population. We are asking each individual what happened to trigger his or her headache...