Sentences with phrase «recounts many»
And just in case you miss the point, he then recounts the gruesome details attending the death of an AIDS patient.
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Jack Werber recounts an immigrant's tale so classic it sounds hackneyed:
In his second offering, freshly translated into elegant and unwrinkled English by Lisa C. Hayden, Vodolazkin recounts the mystical itinerary of a medieval man who passes from healer to holy fool, from monastic to hermit.
Eberstadt recounts her experience avidly perusing parenting manuals until, over time, they became «profoundly irritating» because of their «peculiar combination of joylessness and self - congratulation.»
Memoirs in Exile is not a very well - written book, and it may be rather hard going for anyone not already initiated into the story it recounts.
He recounts the time the famous caricaturist Max Beerbohm was asked about Freudianism, to which he gave this inimitable reply: «A tense and peculiar family, the Oedipuses, were they not?»
As Ronald A. Wells recounts in the Journal of Presbyterian History, i n 1966 the United Farm Workers organized a march from Delano, California, to the state capitol of California in order to demand recognition of the rights of farm workers.
Wanting to avoid any basic appeal to religious revelation, he insists that «reason,» properly informed by such natural clues, can see all the problems he bitingly recounts in recent American history.
After pointing out that they should want her to be a good negotiator, Sheryl recounts saying, «This is the only time you and I will ever be on opposite sides of the table.»
This week on the Ideas to Invoices podcast, Seats recounts how he built Slicehost with Tanase into a thriving -LSB-...]
In the future, blockchain tools could serve as a foundational infrastructure for casting, tracking, and counting votes — potentially eliminating the need for recounts by taking voter fraud and foul play off the table.
THE GLOBE AND MAIL, Toronto: Rohingya Girl Recounts Harrowing Escape from Myanmar's Military (Video)
Investor Adam Draper recounts the day the US government sold 30,000 bitcoins at auction — and his father won.
Daniels recounts repeatedly teasing and mocking Trump in a way that is striking, given Trump's famously thin skin.
In this story, Bernard recounts the experience of an elderly couple who bought a very expensive variable annuity through their bank (4 % annual fee; 7 % surrender charge) and «now question whether they were given financial advice that was truly in their best interests.»
As author Adam Grant recounts, «It was clear that Dave made a concerted effort to recruit people who cared about others, who loved to learn and have fun.
The Orange Code recounts ING Direct's intriguing story.
In the lecture, «Are We In Control of Our Decisions» Dan Ariely recounts an MIT experiment he conducted to test the effects of product and pricing diversification.
As CEO and founder Tony Lourakis recounts, the firm decided to place a huge bet on partnering with AT&T as the means of breaking into a vast and rapidly growing market.
«The Irishman» is based on the 2003 book «I Heard You Paint Houses» by Charles Brandt, which recounts the years Frank «The Irishman» Sheeran spent as a mob hitman.
In Philip Preville's feature today on the Spyder — a three - wheeled motorcycle BRP is hoping to sell to the growing legions of boomers hankering for the open road — he briefly recounts the decision to spin Bombardier Recreational Products off from its corporate parent:
Goodman, whose 1998 The Mansion on the Hill is one of the definitive books on the pre-Napster music industry, recounts Edgar's rise through the ranks of the family business and his all - in bet on the music business just in time for its business model to be upended by MP3 file - sharing.
The Man Who Lied to His Laptop: What Machines Teach Us About Human Relationships (Current), a collaboration with journalist Corina Yen, recounts some of his unlikely findings.
Wolfe recounts, «We asked everyone we worked with for suggestions.
(Unfortunately, recounts Kristin Spence, Wired's second hire, they ruffled some employees by forgetting to leave out the part about the company's extremely low labor costs.)
He recounts a client who, after selling his business, took to the sea on a yacht.
The bravado drains from O'Leary when he recounts the outcome.
He recounts a recent story about an elderly woman who had to interrupt a call to ScriptSave because her husband had suddenly taken a fall.
«We ramped up our overhead so we could handle the explosive growth of a company that goes public,» recounts Thomas DeJordy, owner of Cafe La France, a Rhode Island - based restaurant chain that was supposed to do its IPO in 1996.
If someone you meet constantly recounts his or her successes, but not one single failure, I have a bridge in Brooklyn I'd like to sell.
In it, she recounts her own struggles with becoming a business leader in a male - dominated industry and suggests that efforts to support and help those like her may actually have unintended negative consequences.
In the world of prestige cable drama, the birth and flowering of which Martin ably and enjoyably recounts here, Chase was no outlier.
In his feature published today on the Canadian - made sports drink Biosteel, John Lorinc recounts how Biosteel — unable to secure endorsements from big - name NHL players because of pre-existing sponsorship deals with giant competitor Gatorade — is making inroads with promising up - and - comers instead:
Later in the talk, according to Bloomberg, Colón recounts locking herself in the car because she is «afraid he was going to body - slam me into the ground again or waterboard me in our upstairs bathroom like he had done before.»
In «The Official Chuck Norris Fact Book: 101 of Huck's Favorite Facts and Stories,» Norris recounts a time in South Korea when he saw locals practicing martial arts.
In «The Official Chuck Norris Fact Book: 101 of Chuck's Favorite Facts and Stories,» Norris recounts a time in South Korea when he saw locals practicing martial arts.
Moore recounts the time a second lieutenant pointed out during one exercise - planning session that the plan Moore had picked would subject a covert landing party to a high risk of discovery.
Whereas the very name Singapore once conveyed the promise of exotic pleasures, the present reality is so antiseptic that one current novel about the city, Paul Theroux's Saint Jack, recounts the misfortunes of a pimp who can't make a living there.
As writer Jerry Useem recounts, fixed pricing is itself a fairly new, and particularly American, innovation.
The family's guide, Sorenson recounts, was one Dr. Shailesh, a learned sage with an aristocratic air and a wicked laugh who reminded Sorenson and his wife of «a Brahman version of Vincent Price.»
«Buying the stock at that price was like picking up a discarded cigar butt that had one puff remaining in it,» Buffett recounts in his 2014 letter to Berkshire Hathaway investors.
Fortune's Roger Parloff recounts the Pershing Square hotshot's grudge match with a seemingly pyramid - scheming company.
In an official bio, Romney for President recounts that the candidate «left behind a successful career as an entrepreneur to take over as President and CEO of the Salt Lake Organizing Committee» of the 2002 Winter Olympics.
«We were on the phone with each other, and we'd e-mail going, «I got my two,»» she recounts with a grin.
Klein recounts a recent episode with a northern European distributor that had approach the company at a trade show, very eager to add Pür Gum to their product catalogue.
She recounts her experience in the interesting article and shares one fundamental takeaway from the experience that nearly everyone could benefit from learning.
Another recounts an afternoon of bashing former co-workers with a fellow teacher from Northwestern University.
«We had a case where unretouched and unprocessed raw images of a famous celebrity taken by a famous photographer were leaked onto the Internet,» Aquilina recounts.
«I knew I loved Cheryl Strayed from the first chapter of her memoir Wild that recounts her trek along the Pacific Coast Trail many years earlier.
«I think it was the unhappiest period of my whole life,» recounts Thiel of his time at Sullivan.