Word: exceptional
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Anticipating this study, the code pledges to protect privacy (except when there is a "public interest" in intruding), to provide an opportunity for reply, to correct mistakes promptly, and to avoid irrelevant references to race, color and religion. The code also promises an end to the sort of deception that followed the Sheffield soccer tragedy, when journalists posed as social workers to interview grieving relatives...
...conceived as the social center of the new community he is building. "Have you done the guardhouse? Let's go see the guardhouse." Singh is minutely attentive to aesthetics, even with interest costs and overhead running $30,000 a day. The guardhouse, it turns out, is coming along nicely, except for some ugly screens, which Singh promptly removes from the muntined French doors. He peers at a Government facility up the road: "Now we gotta get the Navy to straighten out the Stalag 13 look there. Those guys are so subtle...
...social reformers who founded the religion: "These guys were, like, wacko. They just appeared out of nowhere and were talking about justice and equality. Treat women equally, serve the poor, defend your rights. It fits the social and revolutionary agenda of the American republic to a tee." He shrugs. "Except that we wear beards and turbans...
...said yes, then he would say, 'Fill up the tank.' If they said no, he would say thank you and drive on. Once we were outside New Orleans, and this day they said yes, so I jumped out of the car and went around back, and I found nothing except a hole in the ground. I told my father, and he spoke sharply to the attendant. 'What else do you expect?' the attendant replied. 'Stop pumping the gas,' my father said...
...Loom products, for $1 billion in 1985. Last February Farley took over textile giant West Point-Pepperell in a $3 billion raid that included $1.6 billion of junk-bond financing. A fellow raider calls Farley's debt a "time bomb." While Farley once joked that "we're doing fine, except that the banks expect us to pay them back," he now refuses to discuss his finances or the subject of raiding. Says he: "I'm staying 180 degrees away from that topic...