Word: fingering
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...little monkey shivering inside. "'Oh, no. Not another one,' I thought," recalls the Dutchman. He didn't need another monkey. Already he and his wife Betty, an artist, were caring for 50 orphaned monkeys, who swung in and out of mischief in the garden. Gingerly, Van Roosmalen poked a finger at the small ball of copper-colored fur. It squeaked fearfully...
...shot up behind me on the right, going well over 80. The driver paused when he drew abreast. He gave me the finger - not once but repeatedly, stabbing the air in a pantomime of nasty proctological hydraulics. With his other hand, he flicked the steering wheel to the left in a spasm of menace, as if he meant to run me off the road. A complete stranger wanted me dead - or anyway, he played at it for a moment. At 75 mph, I had blocked the left lane. I had made him late for an IPO, I suppose...
Once upon a time, many businesses blamed a convenient scapegoat whenever profits went south--Mother Nature. Too hot. Too cold. Too rainy. Too sunny. When your product didn't sell, your losses grew and you lost market share, it was easier to point the finger at meteorology than management. But those days are over. Thanks to a blossoming of private firms that make sense of weather data in business terms, and a new financial tool called a weather derivative, a variety of industries are using forecasts to fine-tune corporate performance. "Weather may still be an act of God," says...
...Ulster the move was greeted more with sadness than with anger. There was little eager finger pointing at the I.R.A., just a kind of disappointment that the road to peace had once more reached a seemingly impassable stretch. On the ground, 30 years of the Troubles are effectively over. Paramilitary killings and bombings have dwindled. The economy is booming at 5% annual growth. The fledgling multiparty government, grappling surprisingly skillfully with the mundane tasks of locating new hospitals and funding schools, had begun to convince people that the province might soon face ordinary problems instead of extraordinary ones...
...Hetty B. Eisenberg '00 sleeps in a common room, curtained by moon-and star beads as a silver wall hanging swirls psychedelically above her. In the room next to her, morning sun streams onto a collection of African drums next to a bathtub full of tropical plants and finger-painted with "Happiness...