Word: dealing
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Jimmy Pedro remembers vividly the first time he found himself second in a judo match, which is to say, the loser. "I didn't know how to deal with a loss; it was like someone shot me. I remember lying on the mat until my father came out and picked me off the floor." He was 11, but he had won a national junior-judo title every year since...
...emergency rooms. Summers' account is a tabloid masterpiece put together with no real evidence, only second- and third-hand eyebrow-waggling and inference-projecting. You get the picture when you see that Summers gives a psychologist's profile of your typical wife-beater ("rigid, impersonal, and inadequate to deal with stress," "values that respect rigid sexual stereotypes") and concludes - eureka! - "It is fair to say that Nixon conformed to this profile to one degree or another." Summers shakes his fist at a dead man and demands, "Have you stopped beating your wife...
...Street Journal, it?s not just annoying when business travelers can?t make it to their destinations on time - it can be financially ruinous. Even with new video-conferencing technologies, many companies prefer to send their employees to meet clients face-to-face. That humanizing touch can be a deal-maker, but there is a risk involved: It requires employees to grit their teeth through countless airport disasters, often arriving four or five hours late at their destination hotels, and slogging through the following, critical workday on just a few hours? sleep...
...leads harder with Richard Morin/Claudia Deane on new WP-ABC news poll... Boing! Gore takes 50-45 lead over Bush, 46-44 in a four-way race, "by easing doubts about his leadership ability and personal style while establishing himself with voters as the candidate best able to deal with the economy, education and health care reform." Busy week...
...secular tone, in the hope that the Palestinians will offer equitable concessions. And though this may seem like political suicide - Barak runs the daily risk of losing his position to a Likud-led no-confidence vote - he can claim two key factors in his favor: The Palestinians would rather deal with him than with Ariel Sharon or Benjamin Netanyahu, and the Knesset may be less likely to oust him if he appears to have found a path to peace. It may be wishful thinking, but these days in the Middle East there isn't much else left...