Word: act
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...Bootlegging Spare Change vendor ID cards is not unheard of. It's especially popular for scamming more money than the cover price of the paper when Spare Change vendors campaign for fundraising. "People will act as vendors who aren't really vendors," Shorey says. "Usually most of that scamming happens down at Downtown Crossing," he's quick...
...Since the traumatic incident, Boike has kept an eye out for other offensive behaviors. Boike and her friends spied on him in Lamont and watched him perform his act in the main reading room. "It was very obvious," she says. She ran into him again in the Quincy Qube and he wouldn't move his gaze from her feet. "He didn't look at me, he just looked at my shoes...
According to her notion, a person contemplating a beautiful object is "decentered" by their awareness of beauty outside of themselves. This helps them act ethically toward others...
Since Scarry says beauty is a personal experience, tied up with the act of noticing, she relates anecdotes from her own life...
...crude oil stores at a 25-year low and the summer driving season approaching. And the announcement last week by Kuwaiti and Iranian officials that they'd vote to retain the production cuts at OPEC's March 27 meeting was the final straw in prompting the White House to act...