Word: fingered
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...free 1 million people from slavery in the next five years." Might be better to keep it simple, though, like Jason Bateman for example: "I pledge to flush only after a deuce. Never a single." Or Diddy: "To turn the lights off." And Schumacher: "To never give anyone the finger when I'm driving." (Obama spent his Martin Luther King Day "being the change" with a paint roller...
...company's reliance on this piece of equipment." They knew people would be listening on their car stereos and on their transistor sets and they were going to do what it took to make their songs sound good and memorable. Even if you couldn't put your finger on it, when a Motown song came on, you knew...
...There they were, looking great, cracking wise, the winners getting moist on camera, the losers welling up in private in the bathrooms. One Brit producer said the F word (in joy, not anger), an American director gave his winning star the finger, and The Office's Ricky Gervais provoked a collective intake of breath, rather than the laugh he was hoping for, when he said, "The trouble is, with Holocaust films there's never any gag reel on the DVDs." Virtually all the town's royalty - except, unaccountably, those two prime party animals, Jack Nicholson and George Clooney- had been...
...published Jan. 13 in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, a U.S. journal, scientists measured 44 male traders' second-to-fourth-digit-length ratio, which is otherwise known as 2D:4D and is an indicator of the effects of prenatal testosterone. The longer a trader's fourth finger relative to his index finger, and therefore the lower the 2D:4D ratio, the greater his prenatal exposure to the hormone. All of those taking part in the study carried out the same type of trading over the 20-month period studied and had the same access to cash and information...
...Clearly, that a lower ratio pointed to higher profits speaks to a little more than finger length. Earlier studies indicated that prenatal exposure to testosterone, which spikes between the 9th and 18th weeks of gestation, increases a person's sensitivity to the effects of the hormone much later in life. The greater the exposure as a fetus, in other words, the higher the levels of confidence, vigilance or risk appetite triggered by testosterone in an adult. That observation has already made digit ratio a useful indicator of ability in fields other than finance; 2D:4D has been found to predict...