Word: fingering
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Maybe it makes perfect sense that Steve Wynn would turn into the Mister Rogers of Las Vegas. Sitting in his new hotel in a red V-neck sweater and gray wool pants, Wynn, 63--famous for yelling at employees, taking up steer roping and accidentally shooting off his index finger in his office--is talking about building neighborhoods in his latest land of make-believe. Explaining that his hotel will be a mellow retreat, without the glitz and campy themes that have made him such a sensation in the past, Wynn breaks into a rendition of Bali Ha'ifrom South...
...asks Chester Finn, an Assistant Secretary of Education under Reagan and current president of the conservative Thomas B. Fordham Foundation. "Some states were doing a reasonably conscientious job--Florida, Massachusetts. But I have no sympathy for states like Utah that, as best I can tell, were not lifting a finger...
...April 21, police arrested 39-year-old Anna Ayala at her home outside Las Vegas. Ayala, who made headlines when she claimed that she had come across part of a human finger in a bowl of chili at a Wendy’s restaurant in San Jose, California on March 22, was taken into custody on charges of attempted grand larceny after law enforcement officials declared her story to be a hoax...
...sweeping motion. “You have to be able to physically move your body.” Stanul fears that if students do not physically engage with the task at hand, they could possibly end up losing limbs. The table saw is the “number one finger cutter-offer...
When a severed finger makes its way into a fast-food order, the first phrase that comes to mind generally isn't victim corporation. But that's how an assistant district attorney described Wendy's last week after a patron claimed last month that a manicured fingertip had been served with her chili in San Jose, Calif. The ghastly publicity, which has cost the restaurant chain an estimated $1 million a day, eased a bit last week when the supposed finger finder was arrested for trying to shake down the fast-food giant. Anna Ayala, 39, a Nevada resident with...