[00:04.84]improvement

[00:07.39]That is a clear improvement, but there is a big hole: exemptions for the Legislature’s lawyers,

[00:14.92]including Mr. Silver, who would not be required to list clients. That is wrong. A lawmaker’s first

[00:22.57]obligation is to the public, not the clients.

[00:29.29]installment

[00:31.63]Economists by nature are the worrying type. Malcolm L. Merriam of the U. S. Bureau of Foreign and

[00:39.71]Domestic Commerce has the job worrying about one of the most vexatious of economic problems —

[00:47.61]installment selling.

[00:52.15]settlement

[00:54.45]If the two don't reach a settlement, the hearing will be in February in front of an arbitrator, who

[01:01.29]must decide whether Lincecum is worth more or less than the midpoint of $10.5 million.

[01:12.49]temperament

[01:15.67]In terms of their outfield play, there have always been two major question marks about them: their

[01:22.26]temperament and the lack of a creator with the panache to break down sides who set out to defend

[01:29.23]against them.

[01:33.46]sculpture

[01:36.38]Hardly anybody knows what sculpture is anymore. Unlike painting, which can be pushed only so far

[01:44.73]before it simply turns into something else, sculpture can be almost anything: a piece of industrial

[01:51.70]detritus, a fugue of TV monitors, a glorified ditch.

[01:59.29]signature

[02:01.34]They wrote a book each, bending close to the page to append a spidery signature; they gave talks to

[02:08.74]schools, colleges, servicemen’s associations, in voices that had almost worn away.

[02:18.08]testimony

[02:22.37]Testimony concluded Wednesday in the first stage of the federal trial over the fate of Proposition 8,

[02:29.96]California’s voter-approved ban on same-sex marriage, as lawyers on both sides continued to argue

[02:37.12]their case to the news media.

[02:44.46]helix

[02:46.14]A: I like the staircases in your villa. Double-helix staircases link all three levels.

[02:52.98]B: I designed them.