Word: priceless
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...managing editor of the Washington Post, makes a case for Greenspan's almost single-handedly engineering the prosperous 1990s. And his assertion that Greenspan sometimes literally gets a pain in the stomach as an early warning to problems not yet evident--"the body knowing something before the head"--is priceless. Fed watchers will want to read this book, as will the curious drawn to Greenspan's celebrity. For the average reader, though, there's less to get excited about...
...voodoo dolls), whose huge success (comparatively speaking) can undoubtedly be ascribed to his ability to tap into the aggregate pre-existing consumer consciousness by mimicking ads from Mastercard and Monster.com. The former has a tagline that includes "Campaign ads filled with half-truths: $10 million. Finding out the truth: priceless"; the latter shows a succession of adorable children proclaiming: "When I grow up, I want the government to have the same problems it has today. I want to vote for the lesser of two evils." This simple but brilliant idea to co-opt two of the most ingenious...
Unfortunately, none of the third-party candidates had enough seed money to ensure that the populace at large viewed their ads. The result? Money wasted on ineffective advertising by major-party candidates: ten million dollars. Having the Presidency hinge upon a chad: priceless...
...ready to write a new chapter, with its 132 rooms cleaned and polished, its tennis court, jogging track, putting green, basketball hoop, swimming pool, theater, bowling alley and weight room fit for exercise. And in its offices, the fate of the world will continue to be deliberated, amid 500 priceless paintings and sculptures that tell the story of the great American adventure and the men and women who made it happen...
...which trains teams of seven to 10 retired adults and places them in elementary schools to provide classroom support to teachers in everything from reading and math to violence prevention. The team approach gives schools a critical mass of input from the volunteers. It also gives the volunteers something priceless: a chance to make friends with other older people engaged in the same worthwhile task. The Baltimore, Md., chapter, now in its second year in six schools, is monitoring the educational benefits for students and the mental, physical and social effects on the volunteers. Reading scores have gone...