Word: duds
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...talking to a guy after you’ve worked up a sweat at the gym and are looking all hot and toned is a much better way to pique his interest than having huge breasts. And besides, if your dream dude turns out to be a major dream dud, you can flex your physique and show him who’s boss...
Don’t use phrases like “if your dream dude turns out to be a dream dud.” They are annoying and make what could be an interesting spread about some woman’s quirky experience into a kind of thirteen-year-old-slumber-party story. Say goodbye to all those annoying puns as well. I hate puns...
Bono is in full rock-star mode, and he has good reason to savor the moment. U2 nearly called it quits a few years ago. After putting out Pop, the first dud of their 10-album career, in 1997, the band members--all in their 40s, all with relationships, side interests and more money than they could ever spend--had to decide whether there was a compelling reason to continue being a band. "Why are you still around?" asks the Edge rhetorically. "You know, you made some great records. But why are you still making records? Part of what...
...Bono is in full rock-star mode, and he has good reason to savor the moment. U2 nearly called it quits a few years ago. After putting out Pop, the first dud of their 10-album career, in 1997, the band members?all in their 40s, all with relationships, side interests and more money than they could ever spend?had to decide whether there was a compelling reason to continue being a band. "Why are you still around?" asks the Edge rhetorically. "You know, you made some great records. But why are you still making records? Part of what...
...Japan's fatal misstep was to avoid the short-term pain of closing down dud companies and faltering banks after the bubble burst, the so-called "creative destruction" the U.S. allowed in the 1990-91 recession and after the savings and loan collapse of 1988. Tokyo said it wanted to avoid layoffs, that companies would recover when the economy perked up. The real story is that Tokyo's instinctive reaction has been to dole out government contracts to construction companies and make banks provide cheap capital to keep retail empires going. (In January, the government backed a bailout of struggling...