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... of God, the projectile hurled by Zeus himself?

hurly burly

... storms, and they go hurtling through interplanetary spacetowards planets...

... the national coffers to hush them up.

... in love with become husks of themselves, they're shadows...

Like I said, I’m going to leave that conversation off for another day, but we had to get all the regulatory approvals in all 51 jurisdictions in the United States for doing this, where you’re not actually sending an adjuster out to measure what happe

... not talking like side hustles sort of thing.

I mean it’s a drive past this place called The Bike Hut, it’s right next to AT&T Park on the Embarcadero.

... most famous for, a hymn that he wrote:" Amazing...

Whether or not the reality lives up to the hype (or will in the future), I don’t know.

hypeyness to it.

... of Enodis who use hyphens to connect their countries...

His morality is strictly backstreet Sunday school hypocritical cant picked up in Peterborough or Rugeley or some such God-awful place.

i can get terribly worked up about

Goldsworthy uses only natural materials for his pieces, including icicles, leaves, rocks, and dirt.

negative, made me feel icky.

... including about a dozen idiosyncratic phrases that he repeated...

Whilst some progress has been made in mobilizing resources, he said that urgent action is needed to drive progress: “that means galvanizing political support across governments and local communities; building momentum for change in corporate boardroo

... form of flattery and idle chit- chat.

At various points, he started idly scrolling through his “Rolodex,” or his contacts, which he described as “the one thing I never lost.” The Rolodex serves as a reminder of wild times (and not-so-wild: “That’s my P.O.

I wasn’t supposed to have this idyllic perfect childhood.

If you don’t believe that you’re worth a lot then it’s

So I just took stock in where I was...

i kid you not

... he was facing further ill- treatment and torture.

In our household, the number one staple food, ahead of milk, butter, and flour, is coffee—our favorite brand being Illy, which produces especially good results in our superautomatic coffee machine.

... if you want to imbibe a culture, if you...

The position is imbued with moral authority; the...

... of Tsinghua who have immigrated to Canada have had...

Frances wrote, “He may be a world-class narcissist, but this doesn’t make him mentally ill, because he does not suffer from the distress and impairment required to diagnose mental disorder.

... crime or transgression that impels them to seek clemency,...

... first sign of the impending cleansing was the breakdown...

... and democratic countries seemed imperiled.

A crucial factor for successful business is an understanding of the broad legal framework within which business operates; computing graduates need to be aware in particular of how law impinges on information technology.

And where you have civil wars, it almost automatically translates into kids losing their parents or one of their parents, and in some cases families becoming impoverished.

has to do with your contribution to yourself, your imprint on your life

... give a five- minute impromptu speech on your personal...

Female 2: I mustered up the courage to ask...

In a digital world where content reigns over all, we all know that we need content, but we’re not sure what type and why.

Aides observed that he was increasingly inattentive and inept.

Congress was incensed; Senator Carl Schurz, of Missouri, compared Johnson to “a wounded and anger-crazed boar.” Eventually, the President engineered a showdown with Congress, by deliberately breaking a law against firing a Cabinet secretary without S

Here in San Francisco, if you want to appear inconspicuous in public, the best way to do so is to wear leather, dye your hair in fluorescent colors, and have all your visible skin tattooed, pierced, or both.

... have had occasion to inculcate my opinions, and persuade...

It’s not just a matter of teachers or universities today inculcating the idea that everything should be free.

He is ideologically indebted to both Patrick Buchanan and Goldman Sachs.

... no civil imprisonment for indebtedness except in the case...

The tip of the piston has a small indentation or hole, and just behind the tip is usually a gasket of some kind to ensure an airtight seal—perhaps a rubber O-ring or simply some waxed string.

These people were called indentured servants.

... persuaded, and signed the indentures when I was yet...

Noah Feldman, a Harvard Law School professor who specializes in constitutional studies, argues that, even without evidence of an indictable crime, the Administration’s pattern of seemingly trivial uses of public office for private gain “can add up to

“In fact, I just signed an impeach petition.” By August, many of his top aides had been indicted, and polls showed that fifty-seven per cent of the public believed that Nixon should be removed from office.

Got to have something to look forward to.” Conversation with Dykstra is always free-associative, and this led into a digressive discussion of the indignities of prison—where, he said, he read a book from start to finish for the first time in his life

Child soldiers are deprived of their families, schools, health systems and religious institutions that help provide moral direction. Shaka Ssali: Well, first of all, it provides what you would call a negative role model to society because as kids,

... have besides some other inducements.

didn’t give yourself so many choices to indulge in self-‐doubt?

indulging in.

... unlike wild and often inedible varieties of bananas, which...

Science is infamous for appearing on the cover of Wired magazine while blowing through $35 million

... technology is in its infancy— likely a decade or...

He's also self- infatuated.

... these and we can infer the payoff to the...

... disaster-- not just self- inflicted but from the skies,...

... or parliamentary framework, and infused as it is with...

But physicists are ingenious, and with the support...

... enormous amount of scientific ingenuity.

... our thoughts are so ingrained in us that we...

He inhabits a closed world that one adviser recently described to me as “Fortress Trump.” Rarely venturing beyond the White House and Mar-a-Lago, he measures his fortunes through reports from friends, staff, and a feast of television coverage of hims

The traditional hierarchical structure of Japanese society has inhibited the input of the younger generation towards solving these problems.

Because the Republican leadership in the House of Representatives will almost certainly not initiate the ouster of a Republican President, the first step in any realistic path to impeachment is for Democrats to gain control of the House.

... aware of any biblical injunction to“ go forth and...

Replacement ink cartridges, however, often cost an arm and a leg, in some cases making your total cost per page higher over the long run than if you’d purchased a more expensive laser printer.

... administration(under Barack Obama) inked the accord, but it...

Another example is color inkjet printers, which used to be fairly expensive but now routinely sell for well under US$100.

... established directly across the inlet on the north shore.

From going into the innermost workings of the brain,...

“You don’t feel the fucking energy,” he says, after the turn of an inning.

Thus, some advice to wiki wannabes: if you feel weird about modifying a wiki page, try just rewording a sentence, fixing some punctuation, or doing something similarly innocuous.

... at any of the Inns of Court, either at...

... with hidden motives and innuendo," Where are you from?"

Office of Government Ethics received more than thirty-nine thousand public inquiries and complaints, an increase of five thousand per cent over the same period at the start of the Obama Administration.

... is proving to be insatiable.

Of course, it also sometimes happens that a dream remains entirely inscrutable even after an hour of intense discussion.

I will say that I think that this is an insidious problem.

It lays out his disregard for science, evident in his onetime insistence that smoking doesn’t cause cancerand a belief that alarms about climate change were “a secret effort to increase government control over people’s lives for some unstated diaboli

It is obvious today that America has defaulted on this promissory note, insofar as her citizens of color are concerned.

Insofar as what I like to do...

in spite of

... of the United States in spite of it.

It’s the latest installment of Leading Edge, our weekly science series.

A couple of years ago, though, in place of books or DVDs, my wife and I got a letter in the mail saying that we were about to begin receiving our Christmas gift from my parents in monthly installments.

Man Cannot Buy Bread Alone There were a few instances I needed to consider in which simply getting from place to place was not enough.

... that if you can instill some interest in science...

Instilling this confidence will help him have faith in himself and work on his own behalf throughout the course of his entire life.

A wall made of straw bales also has dramatically higher insulating properties than a standard wooden wall, making buildings that use them very energy-efficient.

... balloon; the foam provides insulation as well as a...

... concrete is a good insulator, monolithic concrete domes are...

... armor that keeps environmental insults out so that we...

Achmed’s insurer also only makes money if Sally does not pollute.

Later, Rene Cassin was, inter alia, the President of the...

As a result, we use the terms somewhat interchangeably

sense the interconnectedness of all that exists.

... some time prior to intercourse."

The problem Interest rate hikes by the US Federal...

... sentiment that immigrants are interlopers who take advantage of...

... peace was a mere interlude between wars.

25, 2016 An illustrated tour of the Brooklyn neighborhood, where condos and banks intermingle with long-standing Polish markets and restaurants.

I mean the reality is he is governing as if he is the President of a Third World country: power is held by family and incompetent loyalists whose main calling card is the fact that Donald Trump can trust them, not whether they have any expertise.” Ve

To me there’s a strong interweaving between the political and the personal, which is why both are in the motto of the podcast.

in the bush

... variety of other designations in the upper strata of fruit stardom, based on different metrics...

... so, we've really gotten into the groove of... we own different...

I’m always on the lookout for interesting books, and only my budget keeps my habit from becoming truly intractable.

The inveterate diplomatKofi Annan helped define...

... does... you do feel invigorated when you're teacher.

The spirits can be invoked from beneath the Great...

They're still thinking very inwardly.

... be changed by one iota, and to be current...

So whenever someone visits a relative’s house where the paper is rolling the “wrong” way, they’ll change it—prompting considerable ire from whoever lives there.

It irks me... when I hear...

... for work, you know, ironing clothes, having a shower,...

... cells, liver cells, pancreatic islet cells-- captured the attention...

however this calculation is rendered useless when taking into consideration...

i summed it up

Webvan iterated their strategy and their search for a business model by firing executives.

First of all they realized that iterating along the way experimenting was incredibly valuable.

... because, basically, I think it has paid off for them.

It was packed to the gills.

to an IV and be put into a coma until I lost all the weight I needed.

... it's a legacy that I've been cashing out on.

... that yellow circle because I've kind of fallen out of favor.

... using Shoe Bands, I jacked up my bench press by...

It’s funny, my blog is at JamesAltucher.com, but I do most of my posts, really, on my email list.

My email is getting jammed packed with stuff, and I keep missing things potentially.

And I'm jamming away on this thing,...

... do remember the most jarring.

... that they'll stare slack- jawed at their first baseball...

Jaws formed first; teeth came...

... but that's not what jazzes me.

When members of Congress returned to their home districts in March, outrage erupted at town-hall meetings, where constituents jeered Republican officials, chanting “Do your job!” and “Push back!” The former South Carolina governor Mark Sanford, who i

Todd: Jeez!

... could say," Imagine a jellyfish waltzing in a library...

JOANNE ELGART JENNINGS:

He got a law degree in, like, five states, and, like, won ‘Jeopardy’ three times.

... to have someone else jerk the strings that tie...

Dykstra’s hotel key had become demagnetized, earlier, and he was proud of the fact that he hadn’t erupted on the staff out of frustration, but the delay in resolving the problem patiently meant that there were no Mets hats or jerseys in evidence amon

A Bounce in Your Step I have always understood that there is some sort of swinging or bouncing mechanism in a pedometer that jiggles each time you take a step, thus causing a ratchet to move (in mechanical models) or incrementing a counter (in electr

As I’ve said before, it’s like a jigsaw puzzle.

Jill: Don't jinx it!

And although virtually every modern camcorder has a built-in device to compensate for the jitter caused by small hand movements, long handheld shots—especially those taken while walking, as is natural for camcorder users—typically include a fair amou

For he’s a jolly good fellow!

I jolt myself out of it.

Steve: Get down, you see, like jot down, write down and so, again, it’s that word “have”.

jot down

The idea is simple: someone registers a book on this Web site, and in so doing gets a unique ID number that can be jotted down inside the front cover, along with the site’s URL.

... dozen other locals are jousting at a monthly quiz...

Composition, lighting, audio recording, judicious use of camera angles, panning, zooming, and so on all require practice and a certain degree of artistic sensibility; these do not come in the box with your camcorder.

Pinterest pin that says you could be juiciest peach in the world but there’s

... of those things all jumbled up together.

... good in an orange jumpsuit, you'll never know.

That’s extremely helpful at this juncture What are we going to do?

At that time, Astronaut Ice Cream was not available just anywhere, and this curious novelty was too good for my mom, a confirmed ice cream junkie, to pass up.

make the call about pivots, but the company needs to have data junkies, A/B testers, statisticians, and

just plain

Steve: You know, there’s something almost Kafkaesque about this whole thing.

... because they heard the kafuffle.

meets a unique set of obstacles, but Campbell’s keen insight was that the outline of these stories is

I guess it would be a matter of getting some "keeners".

You were on the grind working hard and I was playing mixed slow pitch softball which is a different kettle of fish.

... about Apophis, because you're keyed in to all the...

... few clicks on the keypad, I announced:“ Looks like 11...

A retired ballplayer, age fifty-five and dressed in golf attire (sneakers, khakis, cap), approaches the lower tier of seats at Citi Field and is rebuffed by an usher.

... collected$500, but Do Bands kicked off a new summer camp,...

... region of space, this kidney- bean- shaped region called...

Kindle, kindle the flame because you need that emotional involvement which comes from listening, and listening to things that we like, where like the voice content we find interesting and I would throw, and I agree with you by the way.

... an immediate sense of kinship.

They have a 1-800-GENOCIDE number -- this is going to sound very kitsch, but for those of you who may not be, I mean, may be apolitical, but interested in doing something about genocide, you dial 1-800-GENOCIDE and you type in your zip code, and you

They're like, you know, kittens.

Trade Trump for Pence and you go from kleptocracy to theocracy.

We got a four klick hump to our number...

My own little running joke, the point of which is to ridicule the absurdity of the “no final prepositions” rule, is to put prepositions both at the beginnings and ends of phrases, where they would in some languages be called “postpositions.” Thus, I

... blindfolded, and forced to kneel, as the silencer of...

... if I brought my kneepads."

You’ve spent all this time putting this resume together; you just don’t see the inconsistencies, or you don’t see the spelling mistakes or you don’t see the bad grammar or whatever. STEVE: It certainly does, because, as you say, we get lots of a

... guards came down, I knelt. I begged for my...

Jill: Yeah, I mean there’s so many of these little stores around that have just knickknacks and trinkets and just little things and a lot of women like all that kind of stuff.

If that doesn’t get you a knighthood, what will?

I occasionally encountered trade barriers. The paper industry in Japan was a tightly knit community of users, producers and government officials.

Things you can receive by monthly subscription include: gourmet cheese, minerals (for rock collectors), potato chips, sock-knitting kits, trout flies, tea, jam, pasta, pastries, magic tricks, oysters, candles, condoms, quilt blocks, nesting dolls, so

They don’t look like much: small knobby lumps that resemble-if you’re being generous-shrunken brains.

... which was a terrible knockoff of Craig's List for...

... these designsbecause they can't knock off the logo.

knock out

knock over

... other words, you must know thyself.

knuckle down

knuckle under

... see a lot of kooks.

... the Torah or the Koran or the Christian Holy...

Okay so anyway we’re pretty straight laced and boring.