Word: bump
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...This could be a reasonably big deal, if anything untoward comes out. As it is, the Street?s expecting a slight trimming of inventories (good), a slightly-smaller-than-last-month decrease in production (good, I suppose) and a tiny bump in capacity utilization. That?s good too, but at the microscopic increments expected we won?t be cleaning up tickertape at the closing bell. Still, a favorable trend is better than the other kind...
...notable, however, for their songs and dancing, so much so that an actor is often valued not for his looks or even—heaven forbid—his acting skills, but rather his dance moves. (Rule #11: If you decide to start dancing in a field, everyone you bump into will know all the steps, and will be wearing coordinated outfits.) The songs are lip-synched, but that doesn’t stop everybody from singing them (including my uncle, who does a particularly bad job). I once asked if any Hindi movies did not have songs and dancing...
Sharks come silently, without warning. There are three ways they strike: the hit-and-run, the bump-and-bite and the sneak attack. The hit-and-run is the most common. The shark may see the sole of a swimmer's foot, think it's a fish and take a bite before realizing this isn't its usual prey. It swims away, leaving the bleeding victim in need of stitches. The bump-and-bite is far more serious. Last year Chuck Anderson was training for a triathlon off Gulf Shores, Ala., when he was bumped by a bull shark, testing...
...violently on the job since 1992, the National Education Association is now offering homicide insurance to the 2.6-million members of the union. Talk to the family of the slain teacher, and you can understand why they do not want to be walking down the street some day and bump into the killer of their loved...
...growth. Search engines rely mostly on crawlers, software robots that hop from site to site and from one URL (uniform resource locator, or Web address) to another, indexing the contents of pages as they go. For most pages, crawlers do a fine, if slow, job. But when they bump into sites where information is held inside a database, they grind to a halt...