Word: forth
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...that person, like so much else, didn't show up, the Senator got his own drink, and Hadassah rolled up her silk sleeves to lug the ham and side dishes to the table, never mentioning that there was nothing she and Joe could eat. She keeps him from holding forth in the Great Man way, having told him one time long ago that "there was one less Great Man in the world than he might think." Hadassah was once a fast-track yuppie executive, but now raises their 12-year-old daughter while working part-time. She cheerfully blames...
There is, to be sure, a central and potentially grisly mystery set forth in the book's opening pages and resolved only at the end. In 1919, while serving as a nurse in a Milwaukee hospital for severely wounded soldiers, Amanda Starkey suffers some sort of nervous indisposition and goes home to rest at her parents' farm in rural Wisconsin. They have both recently died, victims of the 1918 flu epidemic. The only people living there now are Mathilda Neumann, Amanda's younger sister, and Mattie's three-year-old daughter Ruth. Carl Neumann, the husband and father, is still...
Confused? So was the Securities and Exchange Commission, which last Thursday set forth a rule designed to take the premium out of analysts' direct access to management. From now on, the SEC decreed, companies may not disclose material information to Wall Street--that means the analysts at mutual funds, institutions, and brokerages--without releasing the same information at the same time to the public via a press release, webcast or other means...
Consolidations such as Politics.com and Medinex could be just the beginning as the new sites struggle for online viewers and revenues. In Philadelphia last week, a cautious McCurry was pressing the flesh and putting forth the softest of sells. "The revolution hasn't happened yet," the former White House spokesman said of online politics. But when it does, "we want to be the premier site selling to organizations and groups that are using the Internet to organize." Which is just the problem, of course, because so does everyone else...
...years I was critical of Bill Gates for not returning to the public some of the vast amounts of money he made from us. When I read about his promise to give philanthropically, I waited skeptically. How wrong I was! He has stepped forth, met his promise and benefited millions of people. He has done so in a way that ensures the funds will be well spent. KAREN HUEMME Carmel...