Word: fingers
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...doubt where the search for his killer would lead: on his deathbed, he said his death had been ordered by Vladimir Putin, the President of Russia. Russian officials have denied that as a malicious provocation. Not surprisingly, Britain is being punctilious about amassing sufficient evidence before it points a finger in any direction. But if some shadowy figures close to the Kremlin turn out to be responsible for Litvinenko's death, it would be the most astonishing indictment of just how ruthless the modern Russian state...
...Those lessons were learned by Wendy's, the fast-food chain, in 2005 after a customer in San Jose, Calif., claimed to have found a human finger in her chili. The incident temporarily drove away Wendy's customers and sales plummeted by 50%, according to Fink, who blames much of the drop on Wendy's ineffectual communciation with the public...
...Wendy's finger episode turned out to have been a hoax. Taco Bell faces a more challenging public-relations task, since the E. coli outbreak could raise health concerns about the chain that will far outlast the specific threat...
...looking in others, there was a sort of bias there,” Allen said. “So now we’re trying to consider mainly infractions that come in as complaints.”But the dependence on these outside reports could create the potential for finger-pointing among campaigns, some of which center on weightier—and possibly more damaging—matters than batons.“If there is a campaign that is desperate for an attack...it doesn’t surprise me that out of desperation, that campaign would make...
...were to rank the senses involved in restaurant dining, touch would surely wind up at the bottom of the list (although this should in no way appear to deny the legitimacy of the sandwich as a culinary art). After all, restaurant etiquette instructs us to keep our fingers as far away from our food as possible. But for those whose natural instinct is to dig in and get real with your meal, I heartily recommend Asmara. Opened in 1986, Asmara was Boston’s first Ethiopian and Eritrean restaurant. Although their spices and preparation methods are similar to those...