Word: bump
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...employee with whom he has long been romantically linked. The communications staffer, Shaha Alia Riza, was transferred to the State Department after Wolfowitz moved to the Bank in 2005, in accordance with Bank conflict of interest rules. But Wolfowitz admitted this week that he had helped secure a salary bump for Riza when she made the move. A private watchdog group has estimated that Riza's salary (which was still paid for by the World Bank) jumped from $132,000 to more than $194,000 when she relocated to Foggy Bottom, where she no longer works. "In hindsight," Wolfowitz said...
...Right now, however, the maglev only travels the length of the 11-mile test track at Yamanashi, and as I discovered, that's a very, very quick ride. The train begins moving on wheels; the levitation doesn't kick in until the cars reach 81 mph. After a bump and release, as you would feel aboard a plane leaving the runway, it's pure, even, rapid acceleration to 310 mph. The only clue to the sheer speed is the tunnel lights outside: Standing 40 feet apart, they seem to stretch and blend until they appear as a single white stripe...
...until college students en masse decide to just say no to facebook, I’ll continue to advertise my love for Blue Oyster Cult and figure out how to bump into the love of my life (perhaps right after he finishes “Morality and Taboo”) and strike up a conversation about Bob Dylan, beach volleyball, or “Seinfeld...
...watch movies.” !!! seems more like ??? at times like these. On the whole, !!! is sexy, juvenile, and silly, particularly in “Must be the Moon,” the catchiest song in the album. The bass and the electric rolls, the astro-guitar and galactic bump: all these elements appear elsewhere on the disc, but here they’re wired into a seamless industrial complex of a song. At other times, as in “Heart of Hearts” (which, unfortunately, is the single), the looping bass thump and electric guitar become tiring...
...scholarly research paper that compared patients who have had their fresh clavicle fractures repaired surgically with patients who were treated the old way. The researchers (who seem to do a lot of operating on clavicles) found that people who had the surgery actually had less pain and less bump than those treated only with the support. So surgery as the best initial treatment is the researchers' suggestion. That's a conclusion which every orthopedist who has treated these fractures - as well as every patient, understandably nervous about being sliced open - is likely to question...