Word: buffer
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...road trip ($800). "People want luxury. They want entertainment. They want convenience," says George Barris. He should know: the legendary car customizer designed the original Batmobile and once decked out a Cadillac limo for Elvis Presley with a TV, a record player and even a gold-plated, electric shoe buffer (in the 1960s, that passed for cutting-edge automotive style...
...energy) officially running at just 1.5%, workers are relatively well equipped to cope with stingy employers--particularly in an era of 0% auto financing and mortgage rates that last week dropped yet again to historic lows. Dramatically declining energy prices since the Iraq war ended are another welcome buffer, allowing consumers to keep more of what they earn...
...isolated areas of Arizona, California and Washington State. Even so, the USDA--under pressure from Midwestern politicians who dream of biopharm Silicon Valleys in Iowa--has stopped short of restricting biopharming in major corn-growing states. Its new rules would step up inspections of biopharms and expand the buffer zone between genetically modified corn and food crops to a mile. But opponents say that's not wide enough to prevent cross-pollination, and a coalition of 11 environmental groups is filing suit against the Agriculture Department. They want to ban the use of food crops for pharmaceutical uses and restrict...
...fate of Kirkuk has loomed large in Turkish negotiations with Washington, and, needless to say, there's not much in the Turkish position for the Kurds to love. Their initial response to the suggestion of even a small Turkish buffer zone 15 miles inside Iraqi Kurdistan was to demand that Turkish troops there be placed under U.S. command - a demand rejected by Turkey, and which the U.S. has reportedly been forced by Ankara's resistance to drop. Kurdish leaders have warned that any Turkish troops in Iraqi Kurdistan would be regarded as invaders. In order to forestall the prospect...
With table space at a high premium, those dining in Quincy might find that they don’t have that comfortable two chair buffer between groups, but taken as a Berg-like opportunity to meet someone new, that little buffer is unnecessary...