Word: self
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...appointment of a French official to oversee E.U. regulation of financial markets was both a "victory of the European model, which has nothing to do with the excesses of financial capitalism," and a chance to "clamp down on the City [London's financial hub]" - a threat Darling described as "self-defeating" and "a recipe for confusion." (See pictures of Sarkozy...
...Checchi, a former co-chairman of Northwest Airlines, spent $40 million losing to Gray Davis in the Democratic gubernatorial primary in 1998; and the businessman Bill Simon, who campaigned unsuccessfully against Davis in 2002. All of them were seen as overconfident and underprepared, liable to self-destruct when pressed on basic policy questions. Raphael Sonenshein, a political-science professor at California State University at Fullerton, notes that self-made, first-time candidates often imagine incorrectly that politics can be made as efficient, orderly and logical as business. "While [very wealthy candidates] are usually competitive, it's not nearly as easy...
Chris Farrell, the economics editor for public radio's Marketplace Money, is the most optimistic of the lot. "Profligacy is out. Frugality is in," he declares in his inspirational self-help book, The New Frugality: How to Consume Less, Save More, and Live Better. Farrell is so enthusiastic in his mission to promote a more sensible lifestyle that he makes the reader want to burn a credit card. Save more, pay off your debts and borrow less, and you can join Farrell's brigade...
...concept of thrift--the root of the word is an Old Norse verb meaning "to thrive"--citing the contributions of the Scots and Calvinists. Malloch, like Farrell, considers frugality a moral imperative as well as an economic necessity. "Thrift is positive, wise, prudential, intelligent, grateful and always self-controlled," he writes...
...Harper; 386 pages), her third memoir, picks up right where Cherry left off, and it stands as a testament to the impossibility of shrugging off your own beginnings. Karr's childhood catches up with her, turning her into a self-doubting, raging alcoholic incapable of a healthy partnership with her über-WASP husband Warren Whitbread (not his real name). Thankfully, Lit also details the ways she went from suicidal to sober, got divorced and got published...