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Weekend Words: Freeze
"Polar Vortex" — nothing else needs to be said.
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Weekend Words: Smoke
On New Year's Day, pot went legal in Colorado.
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Weekend Words: Time
With the year coming to a close, it's time to think about time.
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Weekend Words: Crash
What goes up, must come down, especially when no one really knows what it is. On Wednesday, Bitcoin crashed.
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Weekend Words: Handshake
"When is a handshake not just a handshake?" asks the New York Daily News. "When it happens between the presidents of Cuba and the United States, two countries whose enmity has lasted well over half a century and resisted all attempts to normalize relations."
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Weekend Words: Risk
With the rollout of Obamacare rolling out once more, the chatter is again all about risk: risk pools, risks corridors, pricing risks, risk adjustments — calling to mind the words of former Vice President Dan Quayle, "If we do not succeed, then we run the risk of failure."
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Weekend Words: Self
Not to be outdone by OxfordDictionaries.com, which, as reported by Hyperallergic's Alicia Eler, has selected "selfie" as its new Word of the Year, Weekend Words respectfully centers on the self.
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Weekend Words: Law
In Germany, it was revealed this week, a 1938 law is still on the books that legalized the Nazi seizure of thousands of “degenerate” artworks.
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Weekend Words: Sell
This week, to keep a date at Christie's, a major painting skipped a major museum retrospective. That museum would be the Guggenheim, and the painting would be Christopher Wool's "Apocalypse Now" (1988): SELL THE HOUSE SELL THE CAR SELL THE KIDS. And sell it did.
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Weekend Words: Center
Can the Republican Party find a Savior from the Center?
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Weekend Words: Soul
This week we celebrated All Hallow's Eve, All Saints Day and last but not least, since it includes just about everybody, All Souls Day.
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Weekend Words: Dangerous
This week, danger!