Word: armfuls
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Most Valuable Player in the American League by the Baseball Writers' Association of America?an overwhelmingly white, male group of U. S. journalists. During the 2001 season, Suzuki batted .350, garnered 242 hits, stole 56 bases and played a fine right field, showing about as good an outfield throwing arm as now exists. Newspaper accounts were busy with statistics and with reporting Suzuki's close run for the prize against Jason Giambi, a mighty power hitter who lumbered about for the Oakland Athletics. The larger point may sound simplistic. Suzuki is Asian. Were this 1945, not 2001, neither...
...down. Press a button to go from landscape to portrait view, and presto! Instant Tablet. The whole thing is about the size of a thick legal pad, weighs under 3 lbs. and sits comfortably on your thigh. It doesn't get hot, and you can rest your wrist and arm on the screen without messing up your work. That's because the stylus that operates the thing works by constantly beaming low-frequency radio signals to the computer, telling where it is. That way, Windows knows where you want the cursor to be even before you touch the screen. Once...
...Morgan Chase acquired Hong Kong financial firm Jardine Fleming and then sold off its banking arm, all in the past year. But there is one part of Jardine Fleming's assets that its new parent company is holding close: its junks. Not those of the bond variety but the famous sailboats long associated with Hong Kong harbor. Companies such as J.P. Morgan and its rival HSBC entertain clients aboard well-appointed junks with colorful sails. Maeve Gallagher, J.P. Morgan's Hong Kong spokeswoman, says the junks are popular among bank employees, who get to use them when the boats aren...
...worthy aims of the new round of World Trade Organization negotiations, the six-day talks to launch them last week in Doha were grueling and acrimonious. The meeting in the tiny Gulf state of Qatar was characterized by sly diplomatic intrigue, brutal arm twisting, pompous political grandstanding and foul humor. And although bleary-eyed ministers and officials claimed the new trade agenda more or less pleased everyone, they also showed that getting 142 nations to agree on anything is like building a house of cards on the back of a galloping camel...
...Just keep your eye on the drawings. Thanks to his years of working on the stylish superhero series "The Spirit," Eisner has an expressiveness both in his characters and layout that borders on hyperactive. Every panel has movement, often ending up with a leg or arm poking into the next panel, directing the eye across the page. If sometimes his characters can be accused of overacting, it's made up for by Eisner's grasp of subtle facial expressions. Eisner can actually show you someone going from businesslike to mildly perturbed...