Incorrect Blitz Input

I lifted this sprawling sentence from an article on Robert Rubin, Citigroup’s long-time advisor with a mythological reputaion, in today’s Sunday Business section:

At the Treasury Department, Mr. Rubin threaded a moderate stance on the always-controversial issue of market regulation, navigating between conservative free marketeers like Mr. Greenspan who wanted to streamline regulation and more liberal advocates demanding tighter monitoring of the securities industry.

Would that happen to be the same kind of “streamlined regulation” that got us into this colossal credit crunch? And why do liberal advocates ‘demand’ tighter monitoring while Greenspan gets off by merely ‘wanting’ ’streamlining’?

Read carefully enough and you’ll find that any stereotype is untrue.

It’s odd how your perception of the age difference to younger or older friends seems to shrink dramatically when you reach adulthood. A good friend of mine who always seemed incredibly immature when I was in high school was just two grades behind me. Now I see little difference between us. Likewise, a babysitter seven years my senior always seemed impossibly older and full of authority. I treat her as a peer now.

From a police officer off the Bedford L stop, talking into his cell phone:

“Let me ask you a question, Mom. Do you love me?”

In an effort to shore up my somewhat lacking vocabulary skills for the GRE, I’ve been compiling a list of all the new and unfamiliar words that I come across when reading. Here’s what I have so far:

Querulous
Imprimateur
Bemused
Chattel
Tendentious
Natty
Inveigh
Punctilious
Yeoman
Zaftig
Oenophile
Semaphore
Rebarbiter
Termagant
Vainglorious
Fillip
Raffish
Aplomb
Piquant
Cadging
Astringent
Deplored
Sempiternal
Penury
Tenuous
Impertinance
Teutonic
Churlish
Recusal
Coterie
Asperity
Strident
Phlegmatic
Rigmarole
Florid
Potentate
Puissant

From a girl in a coffee shop in Williamsburg, Brooklyn:

“I’m so glad I’m back in New York.  I can’t stand anywhere else in America.”