To “bruit (BROOT) about” - from the French for “to roar” - is to repeat or spread a rumor.
Example (as used by Dorothy Belle Pollack in The [Bergen County, N.J.] Record: “It was widely bruited about that in his younger years he was alcoholic.”
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Your seatbelt isn’t going to do much for you if you get into an accident on Bolivia’s Nor Yungas Road. Known to locals as the “Road of Death,” it’s steep, prone to landslides, and unpaved. Plus, it has thousand-foot drops, few guardrails, and is only about 10 feet wide. Not only that, the weather in [...]
“It’s funny,” I commented to Peggy. “We have a security system for the Maine summer cabin, but nothing here in Florida where we LIVE.”
“Yeah, you’re right. We should really do something about that.”
“Yeah, we really should.”
That was three months ago.
Now flash-forward to a few weeks ago. I was checking into a Baltimore hotel for an [...]
To “addle” (AD’l) - from the Old English for “mud, mire, liquid manure” - means to make or become muddled or confused.
Example (as used by Liz Dolan in the Daily Telegraph): “You’d think you’d have to be seriously dumb to be fooled in this way but there’s undeniably something about residential property, whether an investment [...]
To “inure” (in-YOOR) - from the Latin for “trouble, pains, exertion” - is to accustom to something painful, difficult, or inconvenient.
Example, as used by Allen Barra in Inventing Wyatt Earp): “They were a hard-driven, hardworking crowd inured to the hardest living, and they found their recreation in hard drinking and hard fighting.”
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Do you struggle to find the right music to “set the mood” for a romantic dinner? Tired of being made fun of for pumping Def Leppard at backyard barbecues? Have no idea what to play during a quiet evening at home?
Well, if you have several hundred bucks to burn, problems like these can be solved [...]
Radio, TV, banner ads, pay-per-click (PPC), magazine ads, billboards… There are dozens if not hundreds of marketing channels you can use to get your sales message across. We don’t expect you to use all of them all of the time - but you should know what your options are. Test different channels and different channel [...]
Do your employees feel like they’re part of the team? Those who do are likely to make a vastly superior effort. The problem is, it’s not always easy to tell how people genuinely feel. But there is a very effective technique that can give you valuable insight.
In general, people reveal their feelings by the way [...]
With the recent turmoil in the markets, chances are you liquidated some of your holdings. Whether it was because they hit your pre-determined stop-loss point or you simply threw in the towel because you’d had enough, you still have some work to do.
Did you re-examine your portfolio mix after you sold those stocks? Most likely [...]
If you’ve ever sent an e-mail, only to realize you forgot to include the attachment, Gmail now has you covered with one of its new Google Lab applications.
When you mention, somewhere in the body of the e-mail, that you’re including an attachment - and you try to send the e-mail without an attachment - a [...]
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