Word: draggings
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...interpreted as an admission of guilt. But the longer the case goes on, the longer it encourages those who just can't stand Blair, and perhaps never could. Whether that does Britain much good is another matter. "This country's reputation for political leadership will suffer if we drag his reputation through the dirt," says the Downing Street aide. That may be true, but if anyone in London cares, they're keeping mighty quiet...
...scolds in pinstripes warn, and unless the rules loosen up, within a decade New York City could slip behind London, Hong Kong or, yes, Dubai as a center of global finance. President George W. Bush chimed in during a Jan. 31 speech, saying that lawsuits and overregulation might drag the markets down...
...that these sounds were made using a vintage vocoder and Paul McCartney’s tape machine from “McCartney 2,” but the result is still a 30-second track that distracts from the surrounding pop glory. Knowing that “Same Old Drag,” which is the musical equivalent of an ethereal summer day, was made using 96 tracks of instrumentation makes me think too much. When the band sticks to what it does best, the album is freed from its cerebral blueprint. The result is a good, not great, summer...
...scrutinizing places of work, commerce and administration during their rounds for signs or smells of illicit puffing. They can fine errant smokers $88, and employers up to $975 for repeated infractions. But even if every one of France's 15 million smokers were caught brown-fingered during an illegal drag, the collective fine wouldn't come close to financing the estimated $19.5 billion the nation's health care system spends to treat tobacco-related illness...
...malice about him; playing romance, something wary, even near misogynistic in his relationship with a woman; and in every genre he imparted a sense of the fragility and impermanence of human arrangements. Not that such subtleties ever prevented him from taking a pratfall, or dressing up in drag, if necessary...