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...saying goodbye without any possibility of a further encounter would have most likely come off as impolite. He may have taken your number and really thought that he would call. Or he just knew that he could not say goodbye and leave it at that. Either way, while your digits were being entered into his phone, were you not flattered? That is what you should take away from this whole debacle: you should feel flattered and know that, even though this did not pan out, there will inevitably be more heart-racing, digit-exchanging moments in your future...
...dugout before the game, utility man and sometimes reliever Max Warren showed me several of the most common curveball grips. He said I had to apply pressure with my middle finger and spin the ball off that digit. He advised me, though, to borrow a ball and see what grip suited me best...
Americans have resigned themselves to an inexorable fate. With a sigh and a shrug, they pull the gas pump off its handle, swipe their credit card, and cringe as the price meter climbs so fast that the dollar digit seems stuck at eight. Frustrated at their bills, they might rant to their friends, or perhaps even call their congressman...
...practical, market-oriented subjects, Italy's potential workforce is full of talented and educated youths who are inexperienced and struggle to find their place in the labor market. A first-class university degree doesn't help when you are faced with high rent, a housing crisis and double-digit unemployment. On the other hand, the stagnant political establishment has to keep in mind that radical and urgent reforms are badly needed in the labor market. Unless we can make changes rapidly, we might as well start talking about a lost generation of young workers. Giulio Cicconi Teramo, Italy I worked...
...well have put up a 'For Sale' sign over [his] office." Specifically, Ryan was found guilty of selling his office, both as secretary of state for eight years and later as the state's governor from 1998 to 2002, for campaign cash through sweetheart leases and coveted low-digit license plates, as well as using office workers to do such campaign legwork as selling fundraising tickets on government time; prosecutors even charged that Ryan's own inspector general's office was rigged to clear Ryan of any whiff of wrongdoing in his administration...