Graduateshotline >> GRE Word List Usage for rapaciousOne commenter on my inflation monster post suggests that while private-sector wages may be going nowhere, the story is different for “rapacious” workers in the public sector. Ah, those pillaging schoolteachers (because that's largely who we're talking ... Profoundly specific subgenres spring up with the rapacious frequency of weeds through cracks in the sidewalk. Musical ground-breakers are summoned up and recontextualized in the manner of Fred Astaire's vacuuming hologram. ... We have no students, we have no stadium, we have no coaches, no TV deals, no band, no fight song, no cheerleaders shot from below by those helpful network cameramen, no alums, no street agents, no rapacious parents or guardians. ... After more than 20 years of living with a rapacious monopoly that's underinvested in infrastructure, stifled competition and short-changed the New Zealand consumer at every turn, we may at last have the beast under control. But while Joyce has finally ... |