Word: bends
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...Neill will be the guy who walks Bush's final proposition up the Hill, and while he'll have areas on which Bush won't bend - and on which he and the Lotts and Hasterts have already agreed - the new man at Treasury will have his hands full getting a package past both parties in a neatly divided Congress in presidential time...
...That area is a source of concern because there is a public transportation node right there where people are coming from a bus stop. With that sharp left-hand bend there for vehicles I can see where that would be an area of concern," McCready says...
...always enough. When they are active, protein molecules may double over or twist into radically different shapes. Understanding their dynamics can be crucial to drug design, and for this, good computer simulations are invaluable. San Diego-based Structural Bioinformatics, for example, generates digital "movies" of how proteins writhe and bend when activated or ensnared by drugs, and identifies the small molecules that would best disable these moving targets...
...weeks I would learn two new things. I know myself, and myself got Cs in gym; adding two moves is pushing it. But I was only there 15 minutes when that night's instructor, Emmanuel, noticed that I was skating with my right knee stiff and suggested that I bend it a couple of inches, just as I was already bending my left one. It sounds subtle, but it was as if I'd been chopping garlic with the blunt side of a knife my whole life and a dinner guest walked into the kitchen and pointed out the blade...
Rumsfeld's report proved contagious. By 1999 the CIA had changed its tune and was echoing him. But the agency had to bend the rules to do it: no longer did a foe have to be capable of reaching the 48 contiguous states to be deemed a threat to the U.S.; Alaska and Hawaii were added, putting the territory to be defended far closer to North Korea. The CIA began assuming enemy missiles could be fired without years of testing. Most critically, it stopped predicting what was "most likely" to happen in favor of what "could" happen...