Word: badgering
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...Naperville, Ill., who tries to keep his $70 monthly cell-phone bill under control by talking only after 7 p.m., when his minutes become free. But he will pay to send text messages to his friends, to IM them and to download wallpaper of Jessica Simpson. Royce Badger, 17, of Atlanta, loves his commute to school--that's when he plays racquetball on his cell phone. Erin Duffy, 17, a high school senior in Katy, Texas, lost the flashy phone that let her download ringtones and wallpaper, so, as punishment, her father saddled her with an older model that...
...with the announcement in Nature of two impressive fossils. One, of a brand-new species dubbed Repenomamus giganticus, demolishes the notion that most dinosaur-age mammals were never larger than squirrels. The animal, which lived some 130 million years ago, had the dimensions of a midsize dog or large badger--by far the biggest dinosaur-age mammal ever found. And the second, a new specimen of a previously discovered species called Repenomamus robustus, refutes the notion that it was always the mammals that got eaten. Inside the skeleton where the animal's stomach would have been are the fossilized remains...
Much like the departed star, in the defensive zone, Mackenzie is a natural, something she developed growing up in the icy Badger State and playing hockey since age seven...
...Human Services Tommy Thompson wrote to the AHA in February, however, saying the suggestion that hospitals must charge list prices "is not correct and certainly does not accurately reflect my policy." A Texas hospital administrator is blunt about why hospitals pursue the medically indigent: "The driving force is to badger them so they don't come back...
...available to any citizen--the law and public opinion ... Yet Nader has managed to cut through all the protective layers and achieve results. He has shown that in an increasingly computerized, complex and impersonal society, one persistent man can actually do something about the forces that often seem to badger him--that he can indeed even shake and change Big Business, Big Labor and even Bigger Government. "My job is to bring issues out in the open where they cannot be ignored," says Nader, chopping his hands, as he often does when he speaks. "There is a revolt against...