Word: particularly
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...elicit even a trace of that childhood thrill. I?ll just walk in to work as usual, glance around at the general office pallor, wash the subway grime off my hands, and settle in at my overly familiar desk. And worst of all, no one will express any particular interest in what I did over my summer vacation...
...this ruling is a particularly harsh indictment; executives hoped the site's strict "usage guidelines" - the company claims participants are forced to prove they own a particular CD before listening to the songs, a bit of legally inspired window-dressing that seems both illogical and unlikely - would help protect the company from record companies' wrath. They were wrong. And now, as the music industry learns of Universal's hefty win, MP3 faces another round of jaw-dropping fines - while the site managed to cut deals with several record companies to stanch any legal action, only half of the music featured...
...This particular party has $908 million left in the bank. Its cash flow is at negative $400 million for the year--ugly, but Amazon doesn't expect to bleed much more. Its annual debt service is $150 million. No wonder the company is quietly shifting gears in the drive toward profitability. Eagle-eyed analysts have seen a slow, steady price rise on high-profit stuff like electronics. And the enormous premium that Greenlight.com is paying for placement on the site could be a sign of things to come, says Mike May, senior analyst at Jupiter Communications. "Increasingly, retailing...
Math professors are not usually known for their literary prowess. So when Manil Suri, 41, a professor of numerical analysis at the University of Maryland, applied for Pulitzer-prizewinning author Michael Cunningham's writing workshop in 1997, Cunningham had no particular reason for high hopes. But as soon as he began reading Suri's book, he was bowled over. "I knew from the first sentence that he was not only accepted into the class, but that he had a voice," says Cunningham. "Sentence for sentence, he is a beautiful and entirely original writer...
...preamble to our founding constitution speaks of honoring those who suffered for justice and freedom in our country and respecting those who have worked to build and develop our country. Chief among the latter must stand HARRY OPPENHEIMER and his family; that they also fought in a particular manner for the former sets them apart in the gallery of South African patriots. I shall remember Harry as a man of exquisite grace and charm, a person with a simplicity and directness that was disarming in its spontaneity, and one who was accessible way beyond what was assumed about a person...