Word: enviously
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...well into the Victorian era, and later propel Harvard’s faux dodo into existence.Tradescent Sr. willed his collection to his son. By then the menagerie of oddities had grown so large that the son hired a curator and former attorney, Elias Ashmole. Historians have speculated Ashmole became envious of the collection and connived to inherit the estate through legal means, recording Tradescent Jr.’s will so he would receive the estate when his employer died. But Tradescent Jr.’s second wife, Hester Pookes, contested the validity of the will. What happened next...
...Obama reported: 258,000. That's the number of people his campaign says have already donated to him, and it amounts to more than a doubling of his fund-raising base in the past three months. "He's got a much more viral campaign than we do," says an envious Hillary Clinton strategist, using a term for word-of-mouth advertising and marketing techniques. "He's got a real buzz about...
...days as Blackstone's stock price dropped. At issue instead is the mere $398 million he made as CEO last year, much of it in carried interest on Blackstone's investments. And the manner in which carried interest is taxed is enough to make even a megamillionaire corporate CEO envious...
...after their first hasty but consequential encounter - is rendered plausible by Apatow's shrewd observations of the people in their lives. Indeed, one of the real pleasures of this movie is derived from the fact that Apatow writes his minor characters - a TV host, a wardrobe mistress, a slyly envious production executive - with the same care and wit as he does his major figures...
...Still, even the luxury section is at double capacity. In fact, the American says, he is envious of the prisons depicted in the Hollywood movies he watches there. Just inside the second gate, where many of the shootings allegedly occur, inmates mill about freely in the hallways, far from their cells, joking around and chatting on cell phones, which are supposedly not permitted...