Word: axing
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...Charlie Rose of The Crimson. RR: I’m the Roving Reporter—I’m kind of a big deal. PM: In terms of your sexual prowess or your ability to play foosball while drunk?RR: What do you think about Larry Summers getting the axe? PM: I was writing in my courage journal one day that I have a crush on Larry. There, you got it out of me. You’re incredible the way you probe. RR: Are you concerned about the women at Harvard? PM: They’re not hairy enough...
Cliff comes across as an attention-monger who appears more concerned about his image in newspapers than his own lab tests. And Robin comes across as a spoiled brat who only blows the whistle because she has an axe to grind with her ex. The characters’ antics sometimes go beyond the strange into the bizarre. While walking along the Charles River, the Stanford-educated Cliff comes up with a “profound idea” to “walk across the river.” He soon discovers that his idea isn?...
...Over in England, 2,500 employees of an insurance firm were fired by a group text message. The firm wanted everyone to hear the news at the same time, as if that was fairer. Instead, getting the axe by text only made the employees more offended. They looted the firm's offices of computers...
...Nuin Dunlop, 34, Damien Moran, 26, Karen Fallon, 35, and Deirdre Clancy, 36, of criminal damage to a U.S. Navy aircraft at Shannon Airport in February 2003; in Dublin. While the five antiwar activists admitted to causing $2.5 million of damage by attacking the plane with hammers and an axe, they said they were acting to protect lives and property in Iraq. The jury took less than five hours to reach a unanimous decision, an outcome the U.S. embassy plans to discuss with the Irish government...
...audience." But while no one disputes the technical prowess of the new generation of ads, that doesn't mean they actually work. In the case of the infamous Feather, as much as Welsh blogger Huntley enjoyed and shared the site, he didn't realize it was an ad for Axe. Are some viral campaigns too cute by half, thus reducing their effectiveness? Perhaps. But as Paul Bates, ad-industry analyst at London brokerage Charles Stanley, notes, all clever advertising, TV commercials included, runs the risk of being too entertaining and burying the sales pitch: "The most effective...