Word: learning
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BUSH: Yeah, I know. I'm trying to put this as delicately as I can. I think there's a difference between people who are intellectually curious and people who are intellectually haughty. I appreciate people who are intellectually curious, who want to learn and know more. I am turned off by people who think they're smarter than everybody else. Because there's a heck of a lot of wisdom in Crawford, Texas. And a good President understands the people who make a living working with their hands as much as the people who make a living working with...
...careers of Bush's chosen treasury secretary and vice-president and his inherited Fed chairman all date back to the Ford years. For a new millennium in which the U.S. economy must learn to play without its superstar of the past eight years, some knowledge of the old problems - high energy prices, dispirited consumers, international uncertainty - could come in handy. The new Republican president remembers the Reagan tax cut. His advisers remember stagflation. As long as somebody remembers Gingrich, Clinton and the virtues of sound fiscal policy, a little spring turbulence could work out for all concerned...
...problems sometimes.] Luckily, few people were using the abacus, since it had only been introduced to Europe a few decades earlier by Gerbert of Aurillac, now Pope Sylvester II. [This is part of how you got to be Pope in those days. Want to make friends and influence people? Learn the abacus...
...doing a lot more shifts because most of our volunteers leave," Sternin said. "I think it's a great experience because you get to share the holiday season with a lot of guests. It's a rewarding experience because you can learn so much from the others, especially because they have no place...
...transforming innocent commodity items into emotion-laden symbols of how we truly feel about one another. Or not. Since there are only two people in the world I know well enough to guess what they would really like (one of them is me), I wasn't surprised to learn of a recent study that finds that 58% of recipients react negatively to their gifts...