lunch shaming
lunch shaming: engaging in stigmatizing practices against children who have not paid for school meals whether that is by refusing to serve them hot meals, requiring them to do chores or wear some identifying stamp or [...]
currywurst
a popular fast food dish in Germany made from pork sausage, ketchup and curry powder. [C]urrywurst [is] the most popular fast food in the city [Berlin], some say the nation. The dish, generally eaten [...]
gut brain
-- the nerve cells in the esophagus, stomach, small and large intestines that communicate hunger to the brain. [There are] sophisticated processes that take place in our digestive tracts to let us know [...]
BRIC
acronym for the four large, rapidly growing economies of Brazil, Russia, India, China Jim O’Neill, the chairman of Goldman Sachs Asset Management . . . is perhaps best known as the economist [...]
Dodo effect
when two or more psychotherapies seem to yield results with little or no difference. [W]hen two different types of psychotherapies [for the same condition] have been directly compared -- and there are more [...]
bad-boy guarantee
a provision in a commercial real estate loan agreement that holds individual developers personally liable for the loan if their borrower company should file for bankruptcy. The commercial real estate market is being [...]