Word: bend
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...start with a premise that sounds like a horror-comedy remake of National Lampoon's Vacation. In a world where a pandemic has fatally infected virtually everyone, an improvised family of four drives cross-country to find refuge in a reputedly zombie-free California amusement park. Then the filmmakers bend this into a coming-of-age love-story road-movie quest epic. With many sharp laughs. And characters rich enough to occupy any movie that doesn't depend on head-bashing and entrails-feeding. And a deft directorial touch that rarely pushes the humor in your face. (See TIME...
...from certain that Chinese and Malaysian companies would bend to the same pressures that Western firms have to stop exports to Iran. Even if they do, Iran has other options. For one thing, gas-guzzling Iran could cut its consumption. As any visitor can testify, driving across Tehran can take hours in clogged traffic, which barely eases up at night. That's because Iran's regime, keen to keep voters happy, heavily subsidizes gas. Iranians are entitled to 26 gal. (100 L) of fuel a month at 38 cents per gal. (about 10 cents per L) - a tiny fraction...
...that could bankrupt the nation - than how much Americans would save if the broken system were fixed. From the Sunday news shows to David Letterman's overstuffed chair, Obama has warned about the rocketing increase in health-care insurance - 5.5% last year, according to one study - and promised to bend the cost curve down in the future. He has described changes to the health-care system that could bring down costs for families and long-term government deficits. But his numbers are hypothetical. "If we are able to slow the growth of health-care costs by just one-tenth...
...that you (and the rest of us) should hope we don't hear too much of in the coming months. It comes from the Greek husteros, which means late. It refers to what happens when something snaps in such a way that it can never be put back together. Bend a plastic ruler too far, drop that lightbulb - that cracking sound you hear is the marker of hysteresis. There's no way to restore what has just been smashed. (See the top 10 bankruptcies...
...hand, I have said that I hope to move a bill forward that can garner majority support." Even progressives, more than 50 of whom had signed a pledge before the recess not to vote for any bill that did not include a public plan, have shown some willingness to bend on the issue - an indication of how spooked the caucus is by the summer theatrics. "I'm willing to look at the public plan if it means getting [Maine Republican Senator] Olympia Snowe's support for it to pass the Senate," says Representative Bill Pascrel, a progressive New Jersey Democrat...