Word: dials
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...another advantage to the rich, who will keep their millions and millions," says David Mutua, 27, a security guard. Still, the IPO was so popular among ordinary Kenyans that even opposition leader Raila Odinga, who narrowly lost a disputed presidential election to incumbent Mwai Kibaki in December, had to dial back his distaste for the offering. Once he realized that the sale would go ahead, it became obvious that standing in the way would be deeply unpopular among supporters who wanted to invest. "Mr. Odinga has always supported the privatization of Safaricom but has objected to secretive manner in which...
...Illegal Self is about a boy named Che whose mom accidentally blows herself up making bombs for a Weathermen-style group. (The specter of Weatherwoman Kathy Boudin haunts all these books.) A fellow traveler named Dial (short for dialectic, ugh) scoops Che up and flees with him to Australia, where she and Che hide out with a band of smelly rural hippies. There is nobody who is not a drag in this book: the cops; the angry, self-righteous American radicals who fight the cops; even the listless Australian hippies, though they are (I think) supposed to be the sympathetic...
...meantime, doctors are likely to dial back on their use of Vytorin. "If they aren't getting to the target goal [cholesterol level] with generic simvastatin, then because this study is raising questions I think a lot of physicians will think about switching to higher doses of drugs like Lipitor or Crestor before going to Vytorin," says Blumenthal. At least the commercials got one thing right - your risk of heart disease does depend on the food you eat and the genes you inherit. It's just that Vytorin may not be best way to fight those factors when it comes...
...that populist-comedy cabal known as the “Frat Pack” (including Will Ferrell, Ben Stiller, and Vince Vaughn), distinguishing successes from failures can be difficult. One may argue “Anchorman” is a funnier, more original product than the sloppy, drunk-dial of a film that is “Talladega Nights,” but both made boatloads of money. Both spawned their own catch-phrases to be quoted ad nauseum by insipid snots that haunt the arcade in the lobby of your local theater. So the quality of Apatow?...
...communities that do not have police departments—where one or two sheriffs deputies have to cover 1,000 square miles—you dial 9-1-1 and wait, often times, for two or three hours. Things have often turned out okay because there has been a handgun in most glove boxes and very few pickup trucks (not to mention homes) without a loaded rifle or shotgun. People knew that, and the crime rate was very...