Word: blowingly
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...lady to tell you what to type. It's a simple innovation, but a brilliant one. How about another one? Some people's calls are easy to ignore, but when it comes to spouses and bosses, it might be life-enhancing for you to provide a reason for the blow off. Palm designed the "ignore with SMS" feature for those occasions. It does what it sounds like: broadcasting a short, predetermined message ("I'm feeding the tigers") back to your ignored caller...
...there wasn't a person in Washington who did not think that it was only a matter of days or weeks or at most months before the jihadists would strike again. It has been more than four years. Al-Qaeda knows its inability to repeat 9/11 is a blow to its prestige and pretensions of leading a global jihad. Anyone can put a bomb in a Bali discothèque. But in more than four years, al-Qaeda has not been able to do anything in America even on the scale of Madrid or London...
...turns out there were people who knew the answer but couldn't say, lest they blow the secret programs that were behind our current interval of safety. But now that the programs are blown, the Administration should stop being defensive about its secret prisons and intercepted communications. It should step forward and say, "O.K. You got us. We didn't want to talk about this stuff openly, but now you know. We have not been hit again because we've been capturing high-level operatives and getting them to talk in secret prisons, where they're incommunicado and disoriented...
...learn more about the Middle East and Asia. And he claims he will continue to increase the amount of time he devotes to the foundation. While it spends only 5% of its endowment a year (the minimum required under the tax code), Stonesifer says she would be happy to "blow past" that level for the right cause--like a vaccine for HIV or malaria...
...Jolie as a spokeswoman, he is blunt. "Number one, you're here talking to me," he says. "Also, when she went to Sierra Leone with us, straightaway we got into the President's office, which would have been very hard without her." Ignore Kofi Annan all you want, but blow off Lara Croft at your peril...