The Senate plans to vote on dozens of amendments designed to overhaul the Postal Service, by providing nearly $11 billion to fund the buyouts of hundreds of thousands of employees and, eventually, ending six-day-a-week mail delivery. And the Post notes that this debate does not divide along...
wonderful memorable characters who have become the stuff of English language itself (Sairy Gamp; Pecksniff) and a happy ending extolling the virtues of goodness and families. It was laugh-out-loud funny in places, and he
While computers provide convenience, they do have a drawback. Programs crash. I had such an experience today at work. I had my proof file built for a letter I was preparing for a client. When I tried to save it, the program flashed an error message and my file disappeared into cyberspa...
It hasn’t happened since Richard Nixon was president — the government shrank. TheNew York Times’ Floyd Norris reports that for the first time in 40 years, the government sector of the American economy has shrunk during the first three years of a presidential administration. Spending by the ...
It is a collection of her “Letter from London” columns that were published in the New Yorker during the War. The book is divided into seven sections, for each year of the war, each commencing with a brief one-page time line of major events during that year. She fictionalized much of...
in any given month. if you dont like that template, just create a google docs spreadsheet with the categories you need: date; loan name/number; loan interest rate; starting loan amount ( including how much you owe on that date) ; payment amount you made on that date; ending loan amount...
Since I consider it as a simple orthographic variant, I retain it in the transcription without adding a sic symbol.Another similar instance is the use of visarga as a segmentation mark, which has so far escaped the attention of most scholars, who consistently use sic for forms ending with ...
At the same time, Daisy is on a self-destructive downward spiral that's exacerbated by receiving a letter from her absentee mother. Billy notices Daisy's increased drug use and approaches Rod about it. He suggests talking to Nicky. Billy and Nicky's conversation quickly escalates, and ...
Trying to text with InReach was problematic and very frustrating because every time I looked down to type a letter, the boat would start to broach in the black night. Fearing that I would be knocked down a third time, or worse, rolled, more and more adrenaline pumped through my cold and...
The main character, Tony, who writes in the first person in the first section of the book, receives a letter which causes him to go back to revisit his memories from the past, challenging his sense of life-narrative. Here’s what I wrote in my review The title of the book is The ...