Word: dog
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...Soviets then put the first man into space, Yuri Gagarin, just after Kennedy had taken office. When the news broke, the President was getting ready to throw out the first baseball of the season and eat a hot dog. How American. How embarrassing...
...Unless Germany reforms its economy, the country risks falling into a Japanese-style slump of little or no growth and a downward spiral of deflation. An early casualty of this forced coalition will be Schröder's proposed new taxes - including increased levies on company cars and dog food - designed to help close an j18 billion budget deficit. "Most of these taxes are now dead," says Holger Schmieding, European economist at the Bank of America, since the CDU campaigned hard on its opposition to Schröder's tax plans. Although the lack of new taxes will make...
...about half of the action figures are based on real soldiers. They wear the same fatigues, they carry the same weapons and even have the same dog tags as real troops. In fact, Hasbro, the maker of G.I. Joe, goes through no small effort to recreate the detail of historic soldiers in its Luftwaffe, NVA, and Soviet Union soldiers. It also includes more recent soldiers, such as those who participated in the first Persian Gulf...
...tipping point, as with almost any fashion, was its adoption by high-profile stylish women--in the fall of 2001. Fashion is a game in which alpha-dog celebrities stay ahead of middle-class consumers, often by mimicking inner-city teenagers and other transgressive subcultures. Madonna's bold use of classic Adidas roused a posse of A-list imitators ranging from Gwyneth Paltrow and Cameron Diaz to Pink. J. Lo made the pastel Juicy Couture velour sweat suit a must-have item, then started producing...
ELEVATED Identity-theft complaints doubled last year. We got suspicious when the dog walker wanted our Social Security number...