Word: obsessing
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...cycle that drives the market is low on fodder since the earnings season is under way and the latest unemployment numbers are tucked neatly into the bed of economic prediction models. But, housing is an evergreen topic and a ready harbor for those who have no other numbers to obsess over...
...split was first visible in November, just days after the presidential election, at the annual Republican governors conference Crist hosted in Miami. The centrists urged the party to obsess less about demonizing government and pressing hot-button social issues like gay marriage; the right wing warned that the party would all but vanish if it tried to be Dem Lite. But now the philosophical disputes are playing out in a high-stakes game of poker, with each side betting it will come out looking smarter when the stimulus' results are discernible. Should California and Florida, two of the states hardest...
...supporting the wealthiest students rather than the neediest? (Kopko says a range of students are signing up.) Couldn't students use the money to just buy pizza? (Donors can have checks sent to the tuition office rather than directly to the student.) And won't it encourage students to obsess even more about grades? Kopko isn't worried. "So far, the closest thing I've gotten to a critique was an administrator at Adelphi University who posed the question, "Might this increase the incentives for cheating?'" he says. "I think the incentive's always there. GradeFund won't change that...
...eminently sad [Oct. 20]. An Obama supporter, Gilbert tells us she is "losing sleep" over the possibility that her father will vote for McCain. She worries that it "could somehow threaten our affection." Really? I understand that many people are passionate in their political beliefs, but to obsess over your own father's political preferences to the point where you want to "scold him or force him to accept [your] worldview" strikes me as rather extreme and narrow-minded. Salvatore Astorina, BROOKLYN...
...eminently sad [Oct. 20]. An Obama supporter, Gilbert tells us she is "losing sleep" over the possibility that her father will vote for McCain. She worries that it "could somehow threaten our affection." Really? I understand that many people are passionate in their political beliefs, but to obsess over your own father's political preferences to the point where you want to "scold him or force him to accept [your] worldview" strikes me as rather extreme and narrow-minded. Salvatore Astorina, BROOKLYN...