Word: firings
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...water, it soon became a staple of country cooking, though wealthier peasants would add honey, eggs and aromatized wine. The delicacy, according to Geoffrey Chaucer, made for an excellent means of seduction. "He sent her sweetened wine and well-spiced ale/ And waffles piping hot out of the fire," the English poet wrote of courtship in the 14th century in The Canterbury Tales...
...longer employed. And he does so with such ostensible sympathy that the victims often leave the interview without wanting to kill him. He's a head chopper who comes off as a grief counselor. The real villains are the bosses who don't have the guts to fire people face to face...
Selling Pattinson to Summit was tougher. He wasn't a star - his biggest role was Cedric Diggory in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire - and he didn't look like a star. "He was disheveled," Hardwicke says. "He was a different weight. His hair was different and dyed black [he had just played Salvador Dalí in Little Ashes]. He was all sloppy. The studio head said, 'You want to cast this guy as Edward Cullen?' I said yeah. And he said, 'Do you think you can make him look good?' I said...
...York City department of health has come under fire for distributing rations of the still scarce H1N1 vaccine to corporate health centers--including those of Wall Street firms--despite shortages faced by hospitals and pediatricians. Officials defended the decision, arguing that they are simply increasing the types of locations where the shot is available...
...Egypt won its place in the World Cup, soccer pride might have been a boost to a regime under fire. Unrequited, it may ultimately serve to undermine...