Word: fancier
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...first hope that the pigeons had been taken by some poor lad who desperately wanted to race pigeons but lacked the wherewithal to buy his own flock. Alfie was able to imagine the Trafalgar Square pigeons soaring gracefully over the Somerset moors or being pampered by a kindly pigeon fancier like that nice detective on NYPD Blue...
...also done a little differently now--most gun dealers are frequently on the phone, calling state agents for a background check on every would-be purchaser. Not all the gun dealers, however. At the sales tables of unlicensed sellers like Larry Snyder, a Denver home builder and gun fancier, you don't see phones. He does ``private-party sales,'' which don't require sales records or background checks. For unlicensed sellers, not much has changed. ``People are buying as many guns as ever,'' Snyder says with a shrug...
...that has changed is the cost of eating right. "Junk food is pretty cheap," notes San Francisco lawyer Peter Haley. A Burger King meal may be more expensive than one that is home cooked, but calorie for calorie, burgers are cheaper than the salad bar or the fare at fancier restaurants that serve vegetables. And eating out is a lot easier than chopping broccoli and cauliflower in your own kitchen...
...urgently important. The menacing mysticism reaches a peak in No Man's Land, a series of drawing-room encounters soured by a barroom aura of impending rough-and- tumble. Like most great playwrights, Pinter keeps writing the same work. No Man's Land is The Homecoming with fancier furniture, Old Times with more recherche recollections, The Birthday Party with a gentler goon squad. It is also, from a playwright generous to actors, the showiest acting duel in his repertoire...
...American health industry may be bigger than ingesting Paramount, but once you give a lawyer the assignment, all the rest is commentary. If a couple dozen lawyers can't handle this, then what good are their fancy educations, and what good have they done by forsaking the even fancier jobs they might have held in the private sector? If the gargantuan project should show any little chinks when it is finished, these can be patched through litigation, thus calling on the talents of more lawyers. When drunks treat hangovers in the same manner, it is known as taking the hair...