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In 2005, attorneys general of 35 states urged the Federal Reserve to end the unsigned check system.
Charles Duhigg
States
System
General
Federal
Federal Reserve
Check
Attorneys
End
Urged
Reserve
In general, insurers say criticisms of claims-handling are unfair because most policyholders are paid promptly, and some denials are necessary to root out fraud.
Charles Duhigg
Unfair
Say
Out
Fraud
Criticisms
Promptly
Some
General
Most
Because
Root
Paid
Necessary
Our brain is essentially programmed to enjoy carbohydrates because they give us a sense of fullness and a rush of pleasure. When people go on low-carb diets, they start to almost subconsciously experience distress from eating carbohydrates.
Charles Duhigg
Experience
People
Sense
Enjoy
Our
Pleasure
Distress
Rush
Eating
Give
Almost
Because
Go
Subconsciously
Brain
Essentially
Diets
Us
Fullness
Carbohydrates
Start
Programmed
Economists at the National Bureau of Economic Research and University of Chicago persuasively argue that one of the biggest reasons for the nation's current obesity epidemic is that food is now so much cheaper and easier to prepare.
Charles Duhigg
Food
Nation
National
Research
Easier
Obesity
Economic
Argue
Cheaper
Economists
Chicago
Bureau
Current
Biggest
Epidemic
Much
Reasons
Prepare
Now
University
Students in school cheat not to get the 'A,' but to avoid the 'C.'
Charles Duhigg
School
Students
Cheat
Get
Avoid
The cooperation of NASCAR - or any other system, it turns out - persists only when everyone believes he has the opportunity to win.
Charles Duhigg
Win
Opportunity
Other
Everyone
System
Out
Only
He
NASCAR
Persists
Any
Turns
Cooperation
Believes
The number of medals on an officer's breast varies in inverse proportion to the square of the distance of his duties from the front line.
Charles Edward Montague
Distance
Varies
Inverse
Proportion
Line
His
Square
Officer
Front
Duties
Front Line
Medals
Number
Never leave a crossword unfinished.
Charles Krauthammer
Unfinished
Crossword
Never
Leave
Doves oppose war on the grounds that the risks exceed the gains. War with Iraq could be very costly, possibly degenerating into urban warfare.
Charles Krauthammer
War
Risks
Oppose
Possibly
Costly
Exceed
Could
Iraq
Very
Gains
Urban
Warfare
Doves
Grounds
If Obama has his way, the change that is coming is a new America: 'fair,' leveled and social democratic. Obama didn't get elected to warranty your muffler. He's here to warranty your life.
Charles Krauthammer
Life
Change
Way
Obama
He
New
Fair
Democratic
Coming
His
His Way
America
Get
Social
Elected
Your
Warranty
Leveled
Here
There is a mystique about psychiatry that people think that you have some kind of a magical lens, you know, Superman's X-ray vision into the soul. One of the reasons I left psychiatry is that I didn't believe that.
Charles Krauthammer
You
Soul
People
Vision
Superman
Believe
Think
Kind
Some
About
Magical
Mystique
Know
Left
Psychiatry
Lens
Reasons
Obama and the Democrats were so critical of what Bush did, the interrogations, the secret prisons, Guantanamo and all of that, and even the war on terror. Obama won't use the word. He's made war on the war on terror.
Charles Krauthammer
War
Word
Made
Secret
Critical
Obama
He
Democrats
Terror
Prisons
Were
Did
Bush
Use
Even
Guantanamo
So far as I'm concerned, Ronald Reagan was the best president. Nixon was the worst. Some of his policies were okay, but he disgraced the office.
Charles Krauthammer
Best
President
President Nixon
Worst
Okay
Nixon
Some
He
Concerned
Policies
Reagan
Were
His
Office
Ronald Reagan
Far
Ted Cruz is a patriot. He believes in what he does. He's done marvels in mobilizing conservatives, mobilizing Americans concerned about the direction of the ever-expanding entitlement state under Obama, and particularly the threat it is to freedom. I disagree with his tactics, but I agree entirely with his objectives.
Charles Krauthammer
Freedom
Entitlement
Disagree
Conservatives
State
Obama
Threat
About
Objectives
Entirely
Direction
Tactics
He
Cruz
Particularly
Concerned
Does
His
American
Done
Patriot
Agree
Believes
Ted
Nuclear doctrine consists of thinking the unthinkable. It involves making threats and promising retaliation that is cruel and destructive beyond imagining. But it has its purpose: to prevent war in the first place.
Charles Krauthammer
War
First
Thinking
Consists
Destructive
Promising
Threats
Prevent
Purpose
Cruel
Retaliation
Unthinkable
Beyond
Doctrine
Involves
First Place
Making
Place
Nuclear
Imagining
To his credit, Obama didn't just come to Washington to be someone. Like Reagan, he came to Washington to do something - to introduce a powerful social democratic stream into America's deeply and historically individualist polity.
Charles Krauthammer
Stream
Introduce
Obama
Someone
Something
He
Individualist
Powerful
Come
Like
Democratic
Reagan
Came
His
Historically
America
Just
Polity
Social
Washington
Credit
Deeply
I would write my editorials using a manual typewriter in pitch-black darkness... I would produce the whole thing without having seen the text.
Charles Krauthammer
Darkness
Seen
Typewriter
Would
Having
Write
Without
Text
Produce
Manual
Using
Whole
Thing
The way that Trump spoke about the outside world was the most aggressive, most hyper-nationalist, and in some ways most hostile of any inaugural address I think since the Second World War.
Charles Krauthammer
War
World
Aggressive
Think
Address
Way
Ways
Some
About
Outside
Outside World
Hostile
Spoke
Since
Most
Trump
Any
Second
World War
Second World War
When the Cleveland Cavaliers lost the 2015 NBA Finals to Golden State, LeBron James sat motionless in the locker room, staring straight ahead, still wearing his game jersey, for 45 minutes after the final buzzer. Here was a guy immensely wealthy, widely admired, at the peak of his powers - yet stricken, inconsolable.
Charles Krauthammer
Game
Lost
Stricken
Final
State
Finals
Immensely
Locker
Locker Room
Wealthy
Admired
Wearing
Minutes
Guy
Cleveland
Powers
Still
Motionless
LeBron
LeBron James
His
Golden
James
After
Room
Straight
Sat
NBA
Jersey
Staring
Peak
Widely
Here
As most who have engaged in competitive sports know, there's nothing to match the amplitude of emotion brought by losing.
Charles Krauthammer
Sports
Losing
Nothing
Brought
Emotion
Know
Most
Match
Engaged
Who
Competitive
I believe that writing is derivative. I think good writing comes from good reading.
Charles Kuralt
Good
Communication
Writing
Reading
Believe
Think
Good Writing
Derivative
You can find your way across this country using burger joints the way a navigator uses stars.
Charles Kuralt
You
Country
Burger
Stars
Society
Way
Find
Joints
Across
Your
Uses
Navigator
Using
For a while there, I was a stringer. The expression comes from the old habit of stringing together the column inches that you had written. They'd measure it and pay you 10 cents an inch for your printed copy.
Charles Kuralt
You
Together
Old
Pay
Habit
Had
Written
Column
Printed
While
Cents
Your
Measure
Inch
Inches
Expression
Copy
There is such a thing as a national conscience, and it can be touched.
Charles Kuralt
National
Touched
Such A Thing
Conscience
Thing
I can't say that I've changed anybody's life, ever, and that's the real work of the world, if you want a better society.
Charles Kuralt
Life
Work
You
World
Better
Society
Changed
Say
Real
Anybody
Want
Real Work
Ever
I think I'd have done better if I had been a little more relaxed-if I had not pressed quite so hard, if I'd not lost quite so much sleep.
Charles Kuralt
Better
Lost
Think
Pressed
More
Had
Been
Done
Quite
Little
Much
Hard
Sleep
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