Word: possession
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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According to the author of "Hedge Fund Edge" Mark Boucher and most experts in the field, a higher wage for these guards does not put a floor under wages, as its advocates surmise, but it puts a ceiling on low skilled labor employment levels. These guards who do not possess the skills to justify their wage increase will simply be cut out of the job market entirely...
...interested enough to finger you in the first place. These kinds of plan files are intended to make their authors look aloof, mysterious and witty. They must tantalize the reader's curiosity but not give too much away. We find the ancient Greeks so fascinating because we only possess fragments of their work. A plan file is like a fragment of a personality, a shard from a giant amphora. It tempts us to put all the pieces together and reconstruct the person from the parts...
...Harvard students may be somewhat more at risk because of the perceived need to live up to extraordinarily high expectations and the difficulty in meeting these expectations at a highly competitive and intellectually demanding academic environment. But it has also been my experience over the years that Harvard students possess an unusually high degree of competence and maturity that makes it possible to deal with these demands...
...feral white man who chained a black man, James Byrd Jr., to a pickup truck last year and dragged him along a rough country road that skinned him alive and dismembered him. To object to putting King to death for the deed requires a saintliness I do not possess. In one sense, King's case is almost a moral free ride. My conscience would remain untroubled by some other death sentences, but John William King's execution will seem especially just and fitting--and, though it is ghastly to say so, a rather handsome, pivotal American moment...
...already befuddled reader who has enough trouble sorting out the foreign names of the members of the families. Unlike the first novel where Chaudhuri acts as a benevolent guide, this story assumes a knowledge of Indian marriage matchmaking rituals and cultural customs that the lay reader simply does not possess...