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...Folds Five have come of age. Their moody new release is a conceptual drift through the experience of their titular hero, a disconnected observer who feels more than he lets on. And in the delicate construction here, the band proves the same is true of itself. Messner aches with lush compositions that expand both BFF's sound (string arrangements accompany their trademark piano/bass/drum combination) and their identity. Sure, "punk rock for sissies" was a fun label for their often-silly post-kitsch nods to pissed-off ex-boyfriends and love-struck goofballs, but it hardly accommodates the stylish, lingering sway...
...Quickly, however, is the operative word. "The rocket launch market is one in which there are a number of options," says Kluger. "The heat is on both companies to find the root of the problem." Otherwise, each could see customers drift off to competitors such as the European Ariane rocket...
...shit!" Daniel exclaims, his head dropping below the steering wheel and frantically scanning the floor. The car begins to drift across the lane divide...
...with having a best-selling novel behind me." Besides, East of the Mountains was started before Snow Falling on Cedars had fallen onto nearly every bedside table. Yet the fact remains that bookstores are filled with 500,000 hardbound copies of a novel whose main virtue is its uneventful drift...
After 19 years on the job, Herb Schrayshuen, 44, an engineer at a public utility in upstate New York, thought he knew the drill: toil away for another 15 or 20 years, then drift off into a cozy retirement on the back of a nice, fat company pension. But last summer his employer threw a wrench into that plan. The utility converted the old-fashioned pension system, in which employees earn the bulk of benefits during their last few years, into a new cash-balance plan, in which they earn at a steadier rate throughout their careers. It sounded simple...