Word: albeit
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...Wall Street argues, albeit on weak ground, that the new model does in fact learn from the lessons of the last decade. In the mortgage-backed security market, subprime loans functioned as adversely selected “lemons,” and the mortgages most likely to fail were the ones most likely to compromise the integrity of the securitized assets. In this new market of life insurance securities, it is instead the healthy insurance candidates who are the liability. This time, to offer life insurance to the physically unhealthy—in other words, the “subprime?...
Modern-day telethons have been distilled down to shorter, albeit star-studded, benefit concerts to respond to specific catastrophes - 9/11, Hurricane Katrina, the Indonesian tsunami, Australian bushfires - but none have had as lasting an effect as the MDA telethons, which have raised more than $1 billion to date. And if the pity party gets to be a bit too much, follow Lewis' own words from a 1990 broadcast: "If you find I'm annoying, I'm getting to you, you've got a remote-control clicker...
...distinctive brand of non-fiction analogous to his brother’s approach as a novelist. “North of South” (whose title refers to the countries Naipaul visits being north of South Africa), his first book of non-fiction, often reads like a novel, albeit one that is as keenly concerned with history, politics, and sociology as it is with its characters. Including such an array of weighty and entangling material, however, does not overburden the book with research or theory. Rather, Naipaul’s art of character and his attention to detail only serve...
There was something different about the resurrection of Dinosaur Jr. even from its abstract beginnings. Before Pavement brought the slacker ethos to its natural, albeit eccentric climax, the reformed hardcore punks J. Mascis and Lou Barlow, along with drummer Murph, sculpted murky, long-range guitar workouts for the laid-back and the incidentally employed. Mascis’ twangy intonation rendered the kind of vocal performance that seemed as surprised as the listener with the craggy and uncompromisingly melodic. Not unlike the generation of grunge bands it inspired, it never seemed meant to last. Well-beloved but critically understated in general...
...public disrobing this summer wasn’t tragic or shocking so much as it was timely. Papi’s innocence is just the latest in a string of Emperor’s-New-Clothes-like illusions that have marked the past decade and which have been steadily, albeit sometimes painfully, revealed with varying degrees of feigned and genuine surprise...