[00:02]preach

[00:03]I have been transformed from a passionate advocate

[00:06]of the philosophy of "have it all" , preached by Linda

[00:10]Kelsey for the past seven years in the pages of She

[00:15]magazine, into a woman who is happy to settle for a bit of

[00:19]everything.

[00:23]peach

[00:24]My grandmother, an Italian immigrant from Sicily, had

[00:28]the ability and a very green thumb to nurture any plant.

[00:33]One day she threw a peach pit into the yard and would

[00:36]you believe a peach tree grew.

[00:41]coarse

[00:43]"It is a very useful and informative piece of work, but

[00:47]we must remember it is really quite a coarse measure,"

[00:50]says Murray. "However, it is certainly statistically

[00:53]interesting enough to warrant a further, more thorough,

[00:57]investigation."

[00:59]sparse

[01:01]A walk-in diner may be told, despite the sparse crowd

[01:05]in attendance, that there is an hour's wait for a table, and

[01:08]that seats at the bar are "for reservations only" .

[01:13]Colonel

[01:15]What question caused an expression of utter bafflement

[01:19]to pass across Colonel Gaddafi's face during a live

[01:24]interview from his tent in the desert?

[01:27]colonial

[01:29]According to the standard history of American

[01:32]philosophy, nowhere else in colonial America was "so

[01:35]much important attached to intellectual pursuits" .

[01:40]calculate

[01:42]Another way of doing this kind of exercise is to

[01:44]calculate the net present value of the unfunded liabilities

[01:49]of the Social Security and Medicare systems.