queer ken English

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queer ken noun

— (dated, UK, thieves, and, Polari) A prison.

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Economic historians like Ken Pomeranz rightly point out that before the Industrial Revolution, differences in median standards of living across the high civilizations of Eurasia were relatively small.

The IMF's departing Chief Economist, Ken Rogoff, warns that the surpluses put global stability at risk.

Every outstanding American international macroeconomist who went to MIT, among them Jeffrey Frankel, Paul Krugman, Maurice Obstfeld and Ken Rogoff, was Rudi's student.

Recent news coverage showed Ken Lay, the former CEO of Enron, being led away in handcuffs.

But there is a fundamental sense in which Bush, like Ken Lay, is culpable, and must be held accountable.

Instead, almost across the board in his administration, he chose as advisors people akin to Ken Lay.

That means trusting economists like Paul Krugman, Paul Romer, Gary Gorton, Carmen Reinhart, Ken Rogoff, Raghuram Rajan, Larry Summers, Barry Eichengreen, Olivier Blanchard, and their peers.

Two years ago, the silence was broken briefly by Ken Attafuah, who directs Ghana's truth and reconciliation commission, charged with investigating rights violations during two decades of dictatorships.

Back in his radical days, Ken Livingstone, the former mayor of London, famously quipped that if voting changed anything, they would abolish it.

The economists Ken Rogoff and Carmen Reinhart have argued that the major financial crises of the last century typically lasted a half-decade or longer.

Any significant move to tackle the PDP machine will likely need to come from the Senate and its president, Ken Nnamani, who played a key role in thwarting Obasanjo's quest for a third term.

As Carmen Reinhart and Ken Rogoff's new book This Time is Different demonstrates, such balance-sheet crises have historically led to economic recoveries that are slow, anemic, and below-trend for many years.

But, as Carmen Reinhart and Ken Rogoff have long documented, post-crisis healing is typically slow and painful.

A decade later, Ken Kesey took his buddies, the Merry Pranksters, across the country in the other direction in their painted bus (granted, with female hangers-on).