Word: blowingly
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...wants to blow up the company's hierarchical traditions, trim the ranks of bureaucrats and encourage a climate of risk taking. He will go out on a limb with bolder car designs (in fact, one new model is called the Edge). And he will gamble that saving the planet from the car industry is the biggest long-term priority of all, so he will pour billions of dollars into eco-friendly factories and cars. Most notably, the company will dramatically increase production of its hybrid gas-electric models, promising to produce 250,000 a year by 2010, a tenfold increase...
...sealed shut and the dead fumes of unfinished papers waft by undisturbed, inducing headaches. I’m no engineer, but it seems to me there must be some way to solve this problem. Being able to open the windows would be a start, or recognizing that Harvard students blow off quite enough hot air on our own without such extensive help from central heating. Instead, those that don’t abandon the hot slog are left to swelter in a study-sauna of their own making. The stifling air has some obvious adverse effects. Passing through the reading...
...Hilary Swank got frank. ?I?m not single. We?re trying to work our marriage out,? said the actress, who showed up to present an award, of her recent separation from husband Chad Lowe. We guess Million Dollar Baby really prepared her to take a blow with dignity...
...types and aristocrats that once made up the bulk of the guest list, the present-day event has been diminished by the inclusion of pop singers, politicians, movie stars and even (shock, horror) the odd porn actress. A ban on smoking, instituted at the 2004 ball, has been another blow to the faithful, as has the introduction of contemporary music (nowadays you can boogie and salsa in addition to waltz). In that case, why attend? For the stunning visual spectacle, above all. Upwards of 60,000 flowers decorate the opulent 137-year-old venue, which is crammed to the rafters...
...Even if Zawahiri were to have been killed in the strike, Coleman believes his loss would not be a crippling blow to al-Qaeda. Zawahiri is certainly a radicalized, visceral killer, driven by "a deep-down hatred" honed by his experiences in an Egyptian prison. Coleman believes the Egyptian contingent of al-Qaeda demonstrated a bloodlust unusual even among the committed jihadists. Many graduates of Qaeda camps had no qualms about carrying out bombings, but few matched the Egyptians' readiness to spill blood up close, through shootings and stabbings. "The Egyptians were always more doers than talkers," says Coleman. "They...