Word: succinctness
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Residents took their cue from Olin College where Twitter has been simplifying student routines with succinct messages like “one of two washers available,” “one of three dryers available,” (you get the idea...
...This is not some Wall Street sharpie talking, but a floppy-haired, 62-year-old scholar with a gentle, meandering way of explaining the world. Shiller's new book, The Subprime Solution: How Today's Global Financial Crisis Happened and What to Do About It, offers a succinct sample of this worldview, which we'll get to. First, though, a little intellectual history...
...thinks he could be using his time better. Couldn't he just turn off the television? Qadir shrugs. "If there is TV, we will watch it. We do have self control, but..." He can't finish the thought. Nasrullah Mohammadi, a 23-year-old police officer, is more succinct. "It's like an addiction," he says. "It's the government's duty to stop this...
...Senator who mined this turf most profitably was ... Barack Obama (a surprise, since you never expect a presidential peacock to be succinct or acute enough in these bloviathons). Obama hit Petraeus and Crocker with an artful series of questions about the two main threats: Sunni terrorists like al-Qaeda in Iraq, and Iran. He noted that al-Qaeda had been rejected by the Iraqi Sunnis and chased to the northern city of Mosul. If U.S. and Iraqi troops succeeded there, what was next? He proposed: "Our goal is not to hunt down and eliminate every single trace of al-Qaeda...
...Scream!” is a fun and engaging read for a hip-hop head, student of modern American history, or any person interested in a lesser-known narrative of our culture. Reeves certainly makes the fast-evolving world of hip-hop seem more comprehensive and understandable, and his succinct chronology covers the most important events, record labels, and figures involved. Despite being only 30 years old, hip-hop has proven itself important enought to make such knowledge indispensable. It’s more than just men speaking; it’s a movement of this nation?...