Word: driving
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Students often focus too much on sex and money,” Douthat said. “As you get older, the drive for money only increases, while the drive for sex tends to decrease...
...view, this is admirable behavior that demonstrates restraint and self-moderation. Why does he insist on characterizing it as insincere? Would he rather that they rent stretch-Hummers and spray Dom and Henny on us poor plebs as they drive by? Would this be in the true nature of rich Harvard students, as Mr. McAuley sees them...
...four weekly flights from Kuala Lumpur operated by the budget carrier AirAsia, tourists are trickling into Banda Aceh, the provincial capital, and for good reason. The city itself is leafy and slow-paced, while Acehnese people are proud, hospitable and keen to make up for years of isolation. Drive out along the west coast and you'll find white-sand bays studded with jungle-clad islands, beaches where 900-kg turtles lay their eggs, and forests where tigers prowl and gibbons peer down from the trees...
Will the notoriously hard-charging Sarkozy roll back his reformist drive in the wake of the electoral shellacking? Maybe a bit - especially after his quixotic insistence that the conservatives could win the second round even after the disastrous results of the first round on March 14. Rather than tweak the right's message, Sarkozy focused on a get-out-the-vote push to urge conservatives to go to the polls, a move that helped to slightly increase voter turnout but failed to prevent the left's landslide win. Now Sarkozy may have to accept a change of tactics. Says...
...hardly be blamed for favoring its own. Although it has managed to pull through the global crisis of the past two years better than virtually anyone expected (including, truth be told, Beijing's own leadership), its top export markets are still weak, and that is fostering a powerful drive toward boosting domestic consumption. The country also feels threatened by calls - most prominently made by U.S. President Barack Obama - for the renminbi to better reflect market fundamentals. In the past, U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner has outright accused China of manipulating the renminbi and most (though not all) economists believe that...