 
The Word of the Day in recent news.
"As in the rest of the former Soviet Union, the mafia in Georgia has supervised a brutal transition to capitalism, with further casual loss of life. The once elegant streets are pockmarked and battered. Georgians still drive Ladas, but often with a
Source The London Times
Before Edwards’s admission, The Times never made a serious effort to investigate the story, even as the Enquirer wrote one sensational report after another: a 2:40 a.m. ambush by the tabloid’s reporters at the Beverly Hilton hotel in Los Angeles after
Source BrothersJudd Blog
A taxed public defender system has been pushed to the breaking point by the $2.3 million budget cut by the General Assembly. The Department of Public Advocacy made a difficult and ethically responsible decision to reduce its caseload.
This decision was
Source Louisville Courier-Journal
veteran played for the Broncos.
Once safety John Lynch decided it was time to go, the Broncos gave him the bum's rush toward the door.
Put the sculptor in Canton on notice. Lynch is a lock to make the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
Will the Broncos be
Source Denver Post
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Major League Baseball's 30 owners or their representatives will meet here on Wednesday and Thursday for the third quarterly meetings of 2008.
Vote to hand general partnership to Neukom is Thursday
The managing general
Source MLB.com
A couple of weeks ago I privately asked an editor in North Carolina–who shall remain nameless–why his paper wasn't chasing the reports that former North Carolina Sen. John Edwards was having an extramarital affair. He essentially laughed off the
Source Recovering Journalist
So, Twitter is really pwning liveblogging, and I'm sure that what will come across more than the insightful views from people with big brains that I am being bombarded with here at the SeaChange Ideas Forum at the Starz Green Room in Denver, which has
Source Huffington Post
DENVER - Hillary's got to be seething.
"There is much we don't know about Governor Palin," former Clinton spokesman Howard Wolfson said.
"But at least in the short term, it will shake up the race, and leave some asking why Senator Obama didn't pick
Source New York Post
Fox isn't covering it really yet, but MSNBC just opened their real convention coverage (speeches, not just talking heads). Pelosi is the first to talk, and it kind of sounds like there is a lot of murmuring in the audience. There is some polite
Source Town Hall
Receiver Ernest Wilford was also pegged for plenty of playing time in Thursday's exhibition finale against the New Orleans Saints. Wilford, who received $6 million in guarantees upon his signing in February, has been outplayed most of camp by Ginn,
Source South Florida Sun-Sentinel
 The Word of the Day on the web. perfunctory adj. Done routinely and with little interest or care: The operator answered the phone with a perfunctory greeting ... WordNet: perfunctory ... http://www.answers.com/topic/perfunctory Definition of perfunctory from the Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary with audio pronunciations, thesaurus, Word of the Day, and word games. http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/perfunctory Dictionary.com Word of the Day for Thursday January 20, 2005 ... Perfunctory derives from Late Latin perfunctorius, from Latin perfungi, to ... http://dictionary.reference.com/wordoftheday/archive/2005/01/20.html He did a perfunctory job cleaning his dad's car, finishing quickly but leaving a ... "http://en.wiktionary.org http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/perfunctory Definition of perfunctory: ... way: You interact in perfunctory ways, never allowing your partner to step over ... they give perfunctory performances - far ... http://www.yourdictionary.com/perfunctory |
 The Word of the Day in quotes.  After listening to 205 of them I have realised there are actually just two types of anthems: the perfunctory, lifeless ones, and those that make the effort to be different. It's a shame that 190 fall into the first groupI look at things in perfunctory way. I have no vested interestThese Cabinet agencies don't really have one boss. They have maybe four bosses and a lot of the proceedings are kind of perfunctoryIn 2001, Legislators held their perfunctory public hearings, and then withdrew behind closed doors, where the actual maps were drawn out of the public eye, by special consultants, who were paid huge sums of moneyIgnore any perfunctory rhetoric. This is war. And we have the the will and the votes to win.In conceptual art the idea or concept is the most important aspect of the work. When an artist uses a conceptual form of art, it means that all of the planning and decisions are made beforehand and the execution is a perfunctory affair. The idea becomes a machine that makes the art.We have confused roles and duties to such an extent that the Chief Justice is overburdened with perfunctory administrative decisions and work that should not be his or her duty at all. Why should a Chief Justice be looking for accommodation for judges and hiring premises for courts? Is that how to administer a country?New Zealand's Parliament has become a place where preordained positions are stated, with hopefully as little fuss and as little public expense as possible. Parliament-the one forum dedicated to public debate-is becoming the one place where public debate has become perfunctory-a simple matter of political posturing.I think The Times — like The Washington Post, USA Today, The Wall Street Journal, The Los Angeles Times, major networks and wire services — was far too squeamish about tackling the story. The Times did not want to regurgitate the Enquirer’s reporting without verifying it, which is responsible. But The Times did not try to verify it, beyond a few perfunctory efforts, which I think was wrong. Images tagged with The Word Of The Day.
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