[00:03]deserve

[00:05]Small-minded officials, rude waiters, and ill-mannered taxi drivers

[00:10]are hardly unknown in the US. Yet it is an observation made so frequently

[00:17]that it deserves comment.

[00:21]preserve

[00:24]Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn exemplified American anti-intellectualism.

[00:31]Its hero avoids being civilized-going to school and learning to read-

[00:37]so he can preserve his innate goodness.

[00:43]observe

[00:46]Adding to a woman's increased dose of stress chemicals,

[00:51]are her increased "opportunities" for stress.

[00:55]"It's not necessarily that women don't cope as well.

[00:59]It's just that they have so much more to cope with," says Dr. Yehuda.

[01:03]"Their capacity for tolerating stress may even be greater than men's,"

[01:08]she observes, "it's just that they're dealing with so many more things

[01:12]that they become worn out from it more visibly and sooner."

[01:21]reserve

[01:25]LUO PING, a director general at China's Banking Regulatory Commission,

[01:31]saying Beijing will continue to buy U.S. Treasury bonds despite concerns about

[01:36]the dollar. China has nearly $2 trillion in foreign-currency reserves.

[01:47]conserve

[01:50]How can we improve people's lives and conserve our natural resources

[01:56]in a world that is growing in population, with ever-increasing demands for

[02:01]food and water?

[02:05]verse

[02:10]During the discussion of rock singing verses at last month's

[02:15]stockholders' meeting, Levin asserted that "music is not the cause of

[02:19]society's ills" and even cited his son, a teacher in the Bronx, New York,

[02:25]who uses rap to communicate with students.

[02:31]sparing

[02:33]Be sparing with quotes. Direct quotes should be used when either the speaker or

[02:38]what he said is surprising, or when the words he used are particularly pithy

[02:44]or graphic. Otherwise you can probably paraphrase him more concisely.

[02:51]sparing

[02:53]A: I don't like him. He is sparing with words.

[02:58]B: Me neither.