1 May 2015

• Fiduciary: (Law) a person to whom property and power is entrusted for the benefit of another. 
• We can have many reasons for our conservational efforts- not all of which are parasitic on our own living standards and some of which turn precisely on our sense of values and of fiduciary responsibility.  (Amartya Sen)
• Dour: Sullen, gloomy; extremely serious and stern, severe
• In some such way in Bombay, I broke down and gave my dour journal up; and looked around to make another kind of start.  (V. S. Naipal)
• Heretic: Anyone who does not conform to an established attitude, doctrine or principle.
• Mahbub ul Haq, a heretic among economists, died on July 16th, aged 64.  (Economist)
• Seer: A person who prophesies future events; prophet
• Just as Lee Kuan Yew emerged from the confines of Singapore to become seer of Asia, so Mr. Haq became accepted as one of the visionaries of International Development. (Economist)