Word: callowness
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...appearance, interpersonal skills, wealth or social class." Viagra reinvigorated business, too: by 1999, the visiting population of Angeles had shifted from young American G.I.s to boozy retirees, few of whom felt like supporting instant families. Unfortunately, the girls they liked best were the ones most likely to get pregnant: callow Catholic girls from the countryside with little knowledge of birth control. The population of unwanted mixed-blood children continued to grow...
...annual rate, gives the E.C.B. plenty of reason to sit on its hands for a little longer. (The central bankers consider inflation above 2% unacceptable.) "They have a view that monetary policy will only affect the economy with a lag of nine to 18 months," says Julian Callow, an economist at Credit Suisse First Boston. "So they want to be very sure before they cut rates." The risk is that they've waited too long already. Merrill Lynch strategist Michael Hartnett is holding out hope for a rate cut this month, but adds: "They are already behind the curve...
...callow bowler in the opposing XI, what would it have been like to confront this Bradman? His entry onto the ground was an amble, which some interpreted as him basking in the applause. In fact, he was allowing his blue eyes to adjust to the sunlight. From narrow shoulders hung muscular arms; this was the result of nothing except overuse of a bat. More striking was his unmistakable half-smile, reflecting both supreme self-confidence and pleasure. "I couldn't wait to bat," he said. "The bigger the occasion, the tenser the atmosphere, the more I liked the game...
Jack E. White's commentary on my book Losing the Race: Self-Sabotage in Black America [DIVIDING LINE, Aug. 7] mistakenly depicted me as having written a callow screed rather than the constructively intended arguments I proposed. I do not call for blacks to "pull themselves up by their bootstraps." On the contrary, I outline strategies for guiding young black students out of a culturally ingrained wariness of school. The claim that I was uncomfortable with my Stanford fellowship but "didn't turn [it] down" is insulting, misrepresenting a process I describe in which I began by agreeing with affirmative...
...that personality almost as much as his athletic prowess that has allowed him to become all things to all people. He is youthful but not callow, self-assured but never cocky, intelligent without seeming intellectual. And he remains, in his megastardom, a wary and private man. Woods reveals little about himself that can be exploited and rarely offers opinions that might offend. When he speaks to reporters and fans, his voice stays in a single register, and he often rounds off well-crafted answers with vague platitudes. On the course, he doesn't play to the crowds, even as they...