标题: Gold Digger, Lover or Husband? [打印本页] 作者: choi 时间: 1-13-2010 19:28 标题: Gold Digger, Lover or Husband? 本文通过一路BBS站telnet客户端发布
(1) My comment: Every Saturday Financial Times has a column Dear Economist;
Resolving readers' dilemmas with the tools of Adam Smith--written by Tim
Harford.
(a) He does have a master's but not PhD. See
Tim Harford
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Harford
(b) He cherry picks his advice and publishes it in book form.
(c) His web site:
www.harford.com
(2) Tim Harford, Dear Economist: My girlfriend’s the rich one, yet I pay...
Financial Times, Jan. 2, 2010.
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/cbce5d0a-ef65-11de-86c4-00144feab49a.html
(3) Note:
(a) cost center (n): "A segment of a business or other organization in which
costs can be segregated, with the head of that segment being held
accountable for expenses. Cost centers are established in large
organizations to identify responsibility and to control costs."
David L. Scott, Wall Street Words: An A to Z Guide to Investment Terms.
Houghton Mifflin (publisher), 2003.
(b) The noun "lover" in the title my posting:
"1 a : a person in love; especially : a man in love with a woman b plural :
two persons in love with each other * * *
4 a : PARAMOUR b : a person with whom one has sexual relations"
www.m-w.com