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Walking morning rounds recently, Searles noticed bear tracks in fresh snow near the golf course. He has become an ursine eco-evangelist. "This is the year 2000," he says, "and authorities still kill bears that did nothing wrong. My ambition is to change this." The gangly contractor adds, "Bears have shown they can adapt to us. Why can't we adapt to them?" Within the range of a middling seven-iron shot, at least four bears are adapting...
...friendly zealousness of a small-town Midwesterner giving you directions to the doughnut shop. "Word of mouth is incredibly powerful online," explains Jeffrey Bezos, 34, Amazon's founder and CEO. "A dissatisfied customer can tell 1,000 people in a few minutes." Scott Ehrens, a managing director at Bear Stearns, says Amazon "understands how to treat customers better than anyone else...
...control medical budget. They are miserable in their lives. And they are a terrible inconvenience to that strain of the American character that has sought to impose rational control on all aspects of life (race relations, gender relations, child rearing, diet, marriage) but, at its worst, cannot bear pain or inconvenience, whether from an unexpected pregnancy (solution: legalize abortion) or an insensibly lingering dad or mom (solution: um, Kevorkian...
...there be any doubt that the democratization of the markets is the single most profound financial trend of the past half-century? The statistics certainly bear this out: by some measures, half of America's households now invest, compared with only 16% in 1945, and mutual funds alone hold more of America's financial assets than banks do. Indeed, a strong argument can be made that the small investor, far more than the professional trader, is the true foundation upon which the modern bull market has been built...
Having a mean, stupid boss is part of the fun of working. It's what bonds you to your fellow employees, even your fellow Americans. Who wants to be the guy at the bar who pipes up with "Actually, my boss brings me a bear claw and a mochachino every morning...