Word: fingers
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...security features for everything from burning jet fuel to anthrax spores, unprepared for a Ryder Truck filled with explosives? Developers say the NYPD simply ambushed them with shifting demands. Police say they'd been privately raising these concerns for months before their official report. And public watchdogs say the finger-pointing itself is symptomatic of the real problem. "There's a confidence problem here, but it's not about security," says Nikki Stern, executive director of the Families of September 11. "It's about leadership...
...poorest than Blair, and is concerned that injecting more choice into public services will lead to unacceptably different standards of quality. But these disputes have always been "pretty subtle - the sort of thing you have to be a senior civil servant or a think-tank person to put your finger on," says Sunder Katwala, general secretary of the Fabian Society, a Labour advocacy group. As the two men face tough choices this term on pensions, taxes, and benefits for the disabled, they can certainly bridge any gap between them - if they truly want...
...with drummer Jim Eno (although friends drop by to help out on this release), has made four satisfyingly simple albums since 1998, but Gimme Fiction marks a high point in the group's unfussy minimalism. I Turn My Camera On is so basic that someone receives a credit for finger snapping--and deserves it. Yet the bass groove at its core is buoyant and hooky enough on its own to create what could be the first disco chain-gang song. They Never Got You starts with another bass riff before adding drums, a Moog synthesizer and viola so judiciously that...
What’s alarming about the fast food finger fiasco isn’t just that it involved a woman allegedly inserting a disembodied finger into her own bowl of chili, but that she assumedly did so as part of a concocted get-rich-quick scheme. True, I make an assumption here about Ayala’s motives, but when she hired an attorney and threatened to sue immediately after reporting her fraudulent claim, Ayala made that assumption a safe...
Excessive and frivolous lawsuits, and the culture of blame that they engender, are regrettable and damaging. As Americans continue to be enslaved by the compulsion to point the (severed, chili-stained) finger, however, the rest of the world has little choice but to sit back and watch in amusement...