Word: armfuls
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Without McDermott, Penn’s title hopes would rest on the young and unproven arm of freshman Bryan Walker. Walker, who has yet to throw a collegiate pass, would be charged with leading the Quakers into their most important game after having done nothing but hold a clipboard on the sideline for the entire season...
...many of the characters it portrays. John Clark (Richard Gere) wants to ballroom dance. In Suo’s Japanese film this is understandably mortifying because, as a voiceover tells us at the outset, “In a country where married couples don’t go out arm in arm…the idea that a husband and wife should embrace and dance in front of others is beyond embarrassing.” Chelsom never explains what makes ballroom dance equally taboo in 21st century Chicago. He tries to plug this plot hole subliminally instead by making Miss...
...Nice Girls Don't Get the Corner Office, you want to preserve a cordial working relationship. But it's important to recognize that when you're negotiating for a car, getting the best price is all that matters. With that in mind, here are three key negotiating tips: ARM YOURSELF WITH INFORMATION. There are great sites where you can find the manufacturer's suggested retail price, dealer invoice price and a list of incentives for any car you're interested in. Your starting point should be the invoice price - how much the car cost the dealer. SET A TARGET. There...
...ClearForest, Inxight and Intelliseek. Over the next year, Big Blue aims to roll out a flurry of new Web-scale information-discovery services. While IBM is closemouthed about specifics, the intelligence community is among the hungriest customers of such advanced, large-scale text analytics. The CIA's venture-funding arm, for example, has invested one-third of its $30 million portfolio in data mining and text/visual analytic companies like Inxight. When it comes to tracking terrorist threats, says Jim Thompson, chief scientist for information technologies at the Department of Homeland Security's newly created National Visualization and Analytics Center, high...
...When you see him in his finely tailored all black three-piece suit, thrusting his arm and clenched fist out at the packed crowd in a sign of Black Power, his voice wavering like an erratic EKG printout, reaching a crescendo mid-sentence and then trailing off so that he whispers the last word, syllable by syllable—“hu-man-i-ty”—it is then that you realize that Cornel West is not your ordinary professor...