Word: britishisms
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...first experiment, 203 American undergraduates in South Carolina were offered a choice between a prize pack containing Lay's potato chips - a quintessentially American brand - and one containing British crisps in odd flavors such as "Camembert and plum." After they made their picks, the students filled out questionnaires that measured how much change is going on in their lives. (The questionnaires asked them to rate their level of agreement or disagreement with statements like "I am making a lot of changes this month.") And surprisingly, those undergoing more changes were significantly more likely to have picked the British crisps over...
...independent service working to our own laws--nobody else's.' SIR JOHN SCARLETT, chief of the British intelligence agency MI6, dismissing calls for an inquiry into allegations that the organization tortured terrorism suspects...
Change is afoot at his ad agency, Sterling Cooper. A British firm has bought it out, cutting head count by a third and playing the remaining employees against one another. One of the new overlords, financial officer Lane Pryce (Jared Harris), holds the newly tightened purse strings with a chilly distance from the staff and from the American illusion-weaving that the ad business is built on. Discussing client London Fog (the raincoat maker), he dryly notes, "There is no London fog. Never was. It was the coal dust from the industrial era. Charles Dickens and whatnot...
...they continue to refuse this request, the British people will draw their own conclusions.' MOHAMMED SHAFIQ, of the U.K.-based Ramadhan Foundation, a Muslim youth group...
...Lockerbie trial may be over, but the standoff it was designed to resolve between Libya and the West continues. U.S. and British leaders responded to Wednesday's conviction of Libyan intelligence operative Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi for the bombing of Pan Am 103 by insisting that sanctions will not be lifted until the Libyan government accepts responsibility for the attack and pays compensation to the families of the victims. The response from Tripoli, in the words of its foreign minister: "Never." Well, never say never - Libya's ambassador to London hinted Thursday that Tripoli may indeed be prepared...