Word: everydayness
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...heels and red cheongsam were designed by Versace, the $1.3 million diamonds were Harry Winston loaners, but down deep?the underwear, incidentally, was everyday Victoria's Secret?CoCo Lee is a plain-talking, down-to-earth, family-loving pop star whose career has skyrocketed in a remarkably short time. A Hong Kong-California hybrid, CoCo got her big break in Taiwan with a karaoke hit in 1994, which she quickly parlayed into mass fame on the Chinese mainland. Disney hired her to do the Chinese voice-over for the movie Mulan (Celine Dion's big break, remember, was voicing Beauty...
...afflicted with this form of blindness in one degree or another. We see it in everyday life and we see it in our politics. We all tend to justify doing something that is in our own interest by suggesting it is good for all. Managers equate their own success with what is good for their employees. Politicians invariably believe their own reelection is nirvana for the electorate. So much of our politics is based solely on self-interest. Is it any wonder that people of high incomes tend to be Republicans and people of low income tend to be Democrats...
...least suited to fulfill. It's no mystery why this should be. We're human. Our byways are complicated. The institutions of law are infected with the same shortcomings - greed, dishonesty, weakness, indifference, anger - that give rise to injustice in the first place. On the everyday working level, criminal justice is like chemotherapy. We throw our little poisons at big ones...
...They manage, however, to keep the pressures of the field distinct from everyday life...
...just working harder now," Birtwell says of his fellow ace. "Everyday, whether we had practice or not, he was in the training room doing rehab, strengthening his arm. Pitching-wise, he's just going to be better...