Word: cranks
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...whereas hawkish ideologues had hoped that the presence of tens of thousands of U.S. troops and the installation of U.S.-dependent regimes in Kabul and Baghdad would leave Iran feeling surrounded and crank up the pressure on the Mullahs in Tehran, if anything the opposite appears to have occurred. The conduct of the hard-liners - from stealing the most recent parliamentary election in broad daylight to their defiant handling of the International Atomic Energy Agency's investigation of Iran's nuclear program and their hardball negotiations with the U.S. over the fate of al-Qaeda leaders in Iranian custody - suggests...
Hamilton--brilliant, brash and charming--had the self-reliant reflexes of someone who had always had to live by his wits. His overwhelming intelligence petrified Jefferson and his followers. As an orator, Hamilton could speak extemporaneously for hours on end. As a writer, he could crank out 5,000-or 10,000-word memos overnight. Jefferson never underrated his foe's copious talents. At one point, a worried Jefferson confided to his comrade James Madison that Hamilton was a one-man army, "a host within himself...
What can you do when your mobile-phone battery runs low and you're nowhere near a power source? New pocket-size products, compatible with most cell phones, can help. The Sidewinder ($24.95) is a hand-cranked electricity-free charger. Hook it up to your phone, and crank your way to six minutes of talk time or 30 minutes of standby time for every two minutes of turning. Or try disposable batteries, such as the Cellboost ($5.99), which plugs into your phone and provides about 60 minutes of talk time and 60 hours of standby time...
...executives are now playing up their hybrid efforts and racing to retool assembly lines in order to crank out up to 1 million hybrids by 2007. The company delivered a mild-hybrid version of its full-size Chevy Silverado pickup to Miami-Dade County's government fleet last month, and plans to make the vehicles available to consumers this fall. Over the next few weeks, GM says, it will deliver 234 hybrid buses to the city of Seattle. GM executive Larry Burns claims that those buses will provide the fuel savings of 8,000 hybrid cars on the road...
...colleges in the country, you will find the top students. Many of them not only possess incredible abilities, but a desire to put out the finest work they can. This will tend to produce a number of high grades, usually well-earned. A little media scrutiny and crank opposition from faculty and administrators should not force universities into changes that are harmful to these top-tier students. Princeton and other schools struggling with grade inflation should see that students get what they actually deserve, not the grades the grade deflators think they...