Keeping Money Secrets From Each Other: Financial Infidelity On The Rise
As many as 41% of American adults deceive their partners by hiding secret debts or accounts. Therapists say it's increasingly common, and it's both the loss of trust and resources that hurt.
Gingrich Takes Fidelity Pledge
New GOP frontrunner decides to sign Iowa conservative group's anti-gay marriage, pro-traditional marriage pledge.
For many years, educational researchers have worked with program designers and implementers in pursuit of what has been called fidelity of implementation. Simply put, this has involved the application of numerous tools and procedures designed to ensure that implementers replicate programs exactly as they were designed and intended.
There is a simple and immutable logic to this urge to strictly control implementation. It is compelled by the methodologies (and their attendant mindset) that warrant programs as effective. The manner in which we validate “what works” in education involves research methodologies that privilege explanatory power as their primary purpose. To arrive at valid explanations, the methodologies necessarily abstract problems and programmatic solutions from their contexts.
Mrs. Edwards, a savvy adviser and the wife of ex-Senator John Edwards, shared his quest for the White House as she struggled with cancer, and secretly, his infidelity.
Oath of Allegiance (United States) -
My fidelity and allegiance from this day forward is to the United States of America.
I pledge to support, honor, and be loyal to the United States, its Constitution, ...
immutable[im・mu・ta・ble]
発音記号[imjúːtəbl]
[形]((形式))変わらない, 変えられない, 不変の, 不易の
immutable laws
不変の法則.
infidelity
(ĭn'fĭ-dĕl'ĭ-tē) n., pl., -ties.
Unfaithfulness to a sexual partner, especially a spouse.
"I hope something happens. I'm restless as the devil and have a horror of getting fat or falling in love and growing domestic." ―from "This Side of Paradise"
The landmark case of a Filipino woman, who had worked in Hong Kong
for 27 years as a domestic helper, had highlighted questions of judicial
independence.
IN A nation of stoics, the most patient sufferers—by common consent—are those from Tohoku, the poor north-eastern area struck by earthquake and tsunami on March 11th. The best-known poem by the region’s most beloved poet, Kenji Miyazawa (born in 1896), starts “Be not defeated by the rain”. It extols the virtues of enduring harsh conditions with good grace. Rarely can Miyazawa’s fellow northerners have faced such a test of true grit. Yet the worry is that the longer they suffer in silence, the less they will act as a spur for revival in Japan.
millstone
音節
míll • stòne
millstoneの変化形
millstones (複数形)
millstoneの慣用句
hard as the nether millstone, between millstones, look through a millstone, （全3件）
A domestic worker is a person who works within the employer's household. Domestic workers perform a variety of household services for an individual or a family, from providing care for children and elderly dependents tohousekeeping, including cleaning and household maintenance. Other responsibilities may include cooking, laundry and ironing, shopping for food and undertaking other household errands. Such work has always needed to be done but before the Industrial Revolution and the advent of labour saving devices, it was physically much harder.
The White House said its next move to deregulate broadband service would be to jettison the Obama administration's net neutrality rules, which were intended to safeguard free expression online.
The 79-year-old pontiff was helped to the ground of the ornate church…
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Li's statement comes amid steadily improving ties between Taiwan and the mainland. Since coming into office 13 months ago, President Ma Ying-jeou has jettisoned his predecessor's pro-independence policies, in favor of much greater political and economic engagement with China.
With appliance sales getting hit by the slowing U.S. economy and the housing bust, jettisoning the business could help GE reach its long-term goal of boosting profits by at least 10% annually.
To get a sense of what
this approach looks like, consider the Hitachi Business Microscope—a
gadget about the size of a company ID badge that workers wear on a
lanyard around their neck.
Different degrees of bowing and prostration, here drawn fromEastern Orthodox religious liturgical use
a rope threaded through a pair of deadeyes, used to adjust the tension in the rigging of a sailing vessel.
a cord passed around the neck, shoulder, or wrist for holding a knife, whistle, or similar object.
Origin:
late Middle Englishlanyer, in the general sense 'a short length of rope or line for securing something', from Old French laniere. The change in the ending in the 17th century was due to association with yard1
before in time, place, order, etc.:proactiveprognosisprogram
Origin:
from Greek pro 'before'
jettison verb[T] 1to get rid of something or someone that is not wanted or needed: The station has jettisoned educational broadcasts.
2to decide not to use an idea or plan: We've had to jettison our holiday plans because of David's accident.
3to throw goods, fuel or equipment from a ship or aircraft to make it lighter: The captain was forced to jettison the cargo and make an emergency landing.
Eating a little of a tasty dessert doesn’t satisfy me — it creates a fierce craving to eat it all, and then some.
“There is a palpable change taking place here,” Mr. Lieberthal added, “with a sense of greater confidence that China has now become an important place and needs to act that way.”
But economic importance does not automatically translate into geopolitical heft. In China’s case, most of the other components of true global power — moral sway, military clout, cultural influence, to name a few — are in the assembly stage, or missing altogether.
Mr. Thomson said that the News Corporation, which is controlled by Rupert Murdoch and which bought the newspaper’s parent company, Dow Jones, last year for close to $5 billion, would invest $6 million a year to add four pages for international news.
Adding heft to a paper at a time when cutbacks are the industry norm — The Journal’s advertising revenue, like other newspapers, declined in the first quarter — is a nice start for Mr. Thomson to ease the anxieties of Journal staff members whipsawed by change. But the vagueness of his role — publishers do not typically attend news meetings — has everyone wondering what else he has in store.
ooze, percolate, exhilaration When the ferry passes the headland, eleven minarets become visible, and you can see clearly the camel chimneys of the kitchens of the Sultan’s palace. This palace of Topkapi housed luxury and indulgence on such a scale that they percolated into the very dreams of the West; but in reality, as you can see today, it was no more than a labyrinthine monument to dynastic paranoia.
Far from oozing self-confidence, China is witnessing a fierce debate both about its economic system and the sort of great power it wants to be—and it is a debate the government does not like.
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Spotlight
Early Coffeemaker
How do you take yours? The coffee percolator was patented on this date in 1865. The documented history of coffee begins circa 1000 in Arabia, where roasted beans were first brewed. In 1615, a Venetian merchant brought coffee beans to Europe and a year later a Dutch trader brought a coffee plant. In 1696, the Dutch founded the first European-owned coffee estate, on colonial Java. About 30 years later, Brazilian Lt. Col. Francisco de Melo Palheta spirited some seedlings away from French Guiana and within several decades, Brazil was one of the world's greatest coffee empires.
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"The morning cup of coffee has an exhilaration about it which the cheering influence of the afternoon or evening cup of tea cannot be expected to reproduce." — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Sectarian Fears Percolate in an Iraqi Town By MICHAEL R. GORDON Sunni residents in Baquba had little trust for the Shiite-dominated army being reintroduced into the city.It was not until the late 16th century that a concept of a Confucian mode of thought began to percolate into the West. 但直到16世紀末，儒家的思想模式這概念才開始浸透到西方。
The Commonwealth encompasses a third of the world's people and a quarter of the UN's membership
percolate
verb 1[I]If a liquid percolates, it moves slowly through a substance with very small holes in it: Sea water percolates down through the rocks.
2[I]to spread slowly: The news has begun to percolate through the staff.
3[I or T]to make coffe using a machine in which hot water passes through crushed coffee beans into a container below
v., -lat·ed, -lat·ing, -lates. v.tr.
To cause (liquid, for example) to pass through a porous substance or small holes; filter.
To pass or ooze through: Water percolated the sand.
To make (coffee) in a percolator.
v.intr.
To drain or seep through a porous material or filter.
Informal. To become lively or active.
Informal. To spread slowly or gradually.
n. (-lĭt, -lāt')
A liquid that has been percolated.
percolator noun[C] a device for making coffee in which hot water passes through crushed coffee beans into a container below
ooze verb[I+ adverb or preposition; T] to flow slowly out of something through a small opening, or to slowly produce a thick sticky liquid: Blood was still oozing out of the wound. She removed the bandage to reveal a red swollen wound oozing pus. The waiter brought her a massive pizza oozing (with) cheese. FIGURATIVE He oozes (= has a lot of) charm/confidence.
ooze noun[U] a thick brown liquid made of earth and water, found at the bottom of a river or lake: Many millions of years ago, our ancestors climbed out of the primeval ooze onto dry land.
some
sʌm,s(ə)m/
determiner
1.
an unspecified amount or number of.
"I made some money running errands"
2.
used to refer to someone or something that is unknown or unspecified.
"she married some newspaper magnate twice her age"
pronoun
1.
an unspecified number or amount of people or things.
"here are some of our suggestions"
2.
(pronounced stressing ‘some’) at least a small amount or number of people or things.
"surely some have noticed"
adverb
NORTH AMERICANinformal
1.
to some extent; quite a lot.
"he needs feeding up some"
sharp(SUDDEN) adjective happening suddenly, quickly and strongly: a sharp drop in temperature a sharp decline in the standard of living a sharp rise/increase in the number of cases of this illness a sharp bend in the road to suffer a sharp blow to the head See picture .
sharp adverb After the church, turn sharp left/right.
sharpish adverbUK INFORMAL quickly: We'd better get out of here pretty sharpish.
sharply adverb Inflation has risen/fallen sharply. His health improved/deteriorated sharply this week. The road bends sharply to the left.
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