Word: conely
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Critics also point to the luxuriously indiscriminate quality of the shopping list. The Air Force strategy for getting its hands on the F-22 is, some Pentagon officials say, a "self-licking ice cream cone." First, lower the plane's cost by building more of them, then sell the extras overseas. The problem is that the Air Force says it needs the plane to counter, in part, U.S. airplanes that have been sold overseas. Then, of course, General Ralston could add the F-22 to his chart of potentially hostile foreign warplanes. Says former Navy rear admiral and aviator Eugene...
...thought of other things I cannot name. Then I thought of my mother, 89, her once fine and witty mind assaulted by Alzheimer's but otherwise, and cruelly, in excellent health. I thought of her sitting on a beach under a striped umbrella holding a vanilla ice-cream cone, while I, at a distance, built a fort...
What guides an axon on its incredible voyage is a "growth cone," a creepy, crawly sprout that looks something like an amoeba. Scientists have known about growth cones since the turn of the century. What they didn't know until recently was that growth cones come equipped with the molecular equivalent of sonar and radar. Just as instruments in a submarine or airplane scan the environment for signals, so molecules arrayed on the surface of growth cones search their surroundings for the presence of certain proteins. Some of these proteins, it turns out, are attractants that pull the growth cones...
...effect ending the reserve system and clearing the way for the free agent system. On the day of Flood's death, that legacy was not lost on today's players. "Every major league baseball player owes Curt Flood a debt of gratitude that can never be repaid," pitchers David Cone and Tom Glavine, the current AL and NL player representatives, said in a statement. "With the odds overwhelmingly against him, he was willing to take a stand for what he knew was right." Flood's fight was not about greed but about rights, about raising the status of players above...
City workers, for example, were out in force yesterday planting trees in the newly constructed granite pits on Mass. Ave. The tall, lanky specimens are leafless beings. Their wafer branches are stripped and gathered together in a forced upward cone, for transport it seems. Still, the trees are three. Pigeons on the grass alas, alas...