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apotheosis

The movement reached its apotheosis in November 2006 at the Microcredit Summit in Halifax, Canada

—p.10 The Power of a Dollar (9) by Milford Bateman
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peripatetic

I seem to recall stuff about clinically fat people engaged in peripatetic eating that made them look bovine.

in an email response to a student about how to find a balance between mocking the target and mocking yourself

—p.761 Afterword by Anne Fadiman (759) by David Foster Wallace
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prosody

This second artificial tennis ecstasy, this prosodic counterfeit, can-unlike the first real raw experience--forge a bond between the writer at his desk in 1991 and the readers in the future

afterword for Derivative Sport

—p.655 Afterword by Mark Costello (654) by Mark Costello
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exigent

As couples spend more time in employment, they have less time for children. This means they must externalize childcare, either to the market or to the state. Of course many have no children at all, devoting their time entirely to the exigencies and attractions, as the case may be, of work and consumption.

—p.218 How to Study Contemporary Capitalism? (201) by Wolfgang Streeck
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reifying

Much of contemporary political economy clings to a reified notion of scarcity as an objective condition with respect to objectively needed material requirements of life

—p.209 How to Study Contemporary Capitalism? (201) by Wolfgang Streeck
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