THE view of West Chelsea from the roof of 540 West 28th Street, a new condominium at 11th Avenue, prompts a somewhat irrational question: what housing crash?
SABRINA TAVERNISE'S thoughtful article in the New York Times, on family-planning counsellors meeting with Afghan mullahs to build support for birth control, prompts a somewhat off-the-mark response from Matthew Yglesias The specific method of trying to do this by talking to male religious leaders about birth control seems to me to be at odds with most of what we know about this subject.
These majestic plants have a lineage stretching back to the Jurassic period, but fears over their future have prompted a somewhat counterintuitive plan presented to the Trump administration – in order to save the giant sequoias, some say, their surrounding area must be stripped of protected status.
It prompted a somewhat public spat when one of its members, Robert Gordon, declared in the Wall Street Journal, "It is obvious that the recession is over".
It prompted a somewhat public spat when one of its members, Robert Gordon, declared in the Wall Street Journal, "It is obvious that the recession is over". Since dating business cycles is a retrospective exercise, there is not a lot riding on the uncertainty about whether the recession has really ended.
This blog was prompted by a somewhat ambitious project -- some might say too ambitious (or worse!) -- that I've recently initiated, namely, to create a dictionary of "untranslatable words" relating to wellbeing.
Still, the shock of seeing ordinary support jobs going begging prompted this call for more attention to a somewhat obscure point.
First, students had seen several taxa-relatedness questions throughout the semester; to avoid retest concerns, we created prompts that were familiar to students but offered a somewhat new opportunity to interpret relatedness.
A somewhat ironic name, no?
