Word: ditching
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Nadal is James Dean to Federer's Cary Grant. With his shoulder-length hair, garish Capri pants (he will ditch them for the Open, he promises), sleeveless shirts that show off biceps that bulge like the Pyrenees, and hit-and-grunt technique, Nadal is the loudest player on tour. "He's like the bulls running down the street in [Pamplona]," says Bollettieri. "The bulls are going to run over every goddam thing--houses, anything." Another Nadal trademark is the leaping fist-pump; he leaves no emotion in the locker room. "This is who I am," he says. "I do what...
...curtains drawn against the daylight didn't ring a warning bell, the grilles covering the windows should have. But after 300 km in the glare of the Western Australian sun, the only thing to do is ditch the car, head for the nearest pub and dive into a frosty beer. Dive is the word. Up the steps, through a wooden door into a neon-lit room with battered furniture, dog racing on a couple of TVs, a pool table in an alcove illuminated by the cold blue light used in public toilets to discourage intravenous drug users...
...Arab governments are mounting a last-ditch attempt to change the text before it is adopted by the Security Council. Although France has indicated sympathy with Arab complaints, they say the deal on offer is as much as Israel and the U.S. will concede...
...Internal Revenue Service and Veterans Affairs. The higher up the management chain, the worse the problem; among top government officials, almost 70% are primed to retire. A culture of denial has set in, and the very people responsible to fix it are the ones who are going to ditch. Many agencies will enter an embarrassing phase of ineptitude, caused by a lack of staff or a newly hired and inexperienced staff...
...progress. For the most part they don't have anything to fall back on, so if a child gets sick, they don't have health care coverage. If they run into a financial problem, they don't have any cushion. The result is they're right back in the ditch. You can't live on $6, $7 or $8 an hour and have anything to fall back on. Or save anything. Most folks who live on those kind of wages don't have bank accounts or credit cards, which makes them incredibly vulnerable to predatory payday lenders. They live...