Word: exactions
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...energy is the one sector that no one else wants to see go up right now. Higher fuel prices are bad for the exact businesses that are still recovering from Sept. 11 - namely airlines, transportation, tourism and travel, not to mention the slowdown's long-time whipping boy, manufacturing. And if economists have said it once, they've said it a million times - all that adds up to a virtual tax hike on consumers, upon whose open wallets this nascent recovery depends...
...implausibilities since I can't help reacting with a generous serving of ham, twisting wildly to see my rear end or banging my head to put out the conflagration. My son gets to say, "Tricked you!" He's happy, I'm happy; we continue driving, until he says the exact same thing one minute later. Before long my reaction grows muted and shortly after that I'm begging him for mercy's sake to stop that nonsense. (Oh and I was joking about driving. We're usually in church...
...There's little chance that poverty will ever be erased in India; 1 billion people are never going to live in the suburban ease of Japan. And religious violence always seems on the verge of flaring up, reminding us that India's swarming freedoms exact a cost. But at a time when Japan seems to be losing pace, India seems to be catching up with it. My car stopped one day at a red light-RELAX, I read on the traffic light-and a little boy came up to me waving a copy of the Ikea 2001 catalog...
...built just for talking. Then along came a company called Samsung Electronics, little known outside of Asia, selling us phones that are voice activated, that surf the Internet, that play MP3 tunes. Last year Samsung rolled out stylish models that keep our calendars in color and can pinpoint our exact location. Now the South Korean company is introducing phones with always-on text messaging and wireless video that lets us play games and watch movie clips...
...built just for talking. Then along came a company called Samsung Electronics, little known to most consumers, selling us phones that are voice activated, that surf the Internet, that play MP3 tunes. Last year Samsung rolled out stylish models that keep our calendars in color and can pinpoint our exact location. Now the South Korean company is introducing phones with always-on text messaging and wireless video that lets us play games and watch movie clips...