Word: tidbits
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...with specific and knowing details. Bowdoin's admissions committee was on the fence about an applicant who had good grades but below-average test scores. Then it scanned his two recommendations. "A rare gem," said one letter; the other called him a "mature humanitarian." Most compelling, though, was a tidbit missing from the rest of the application. The student had come up with a unique scheme for supporting world-famine relief: he pledged his weekly allowance and persuaded his parents to give matching grants. Cornell readers were similarly impressed with a letter that touted an applicant's papers on Billie...
...with specific and knowing details. Bowdoin's admissions committee was on the fence about one applicant who had good grades but below-average test scores. Then it scanned his two recommendations. "A rare gem," said one letter; the other called him a "mature humanitarian." Most compelling, though, was a tidbit missing from the rest of the application. The student had come up with a unique scheme for supporting world famine relief: he pledged his weekly allowance and persuaded his parents to give matching grants. Cornell readers were similarly impressed with a letter that touted an applicant's papers on Billie...
...stick with me while I take a chart gazer's look at the Dow. It's in a classic "pennant" formation that in the end tells us nothing about whether the market is going up or down but leaves us with one valuable tidbit: we're due for a breakout--soon. And when it comes, up or down, the market should continue in that direction for a while...
Even if I don't catch something spicy, anticipation keeps me hooked. Every time someone starts digging around in a dresser drawer or whispering in someone else's ear, I wonder what juicy tidbit I'll discover. I want to know what makes each person tick, which one will crack first and who will say nasty things behind someone else's back...
...travel agency Clemens. "It's incomprehensible," says Albert Kuenzel, one of the agency's employees. "We are deeply moved. Many [of these people] were regular customers, most of them of retirement age." His colleague Christian Stattrop adds in a tired voice: "The Concorde was supposed to be a special tidbit for the travelers. When we heard about the crash we were horrified and helpless." The seven surviving members of the Mönchengladbach group had been the "unlucky" ones when the party drew lots to decide who would have the privilege of claiming the 13 remaining seats on the Concorde...