Word: flatness
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...candidates have been in a flat-out sprint since December. The fierce struggle for the first four contests left them tied, and Super Tuesday - a blizzard of 22 states voting at once - was an expensive and exhausting hurdle that did little to determine a victor. Now the race is settling down to a kind of waltz, two states here, three contests there, in the run-up to the next crucial showdown on March 4, when the delegate-rich states of Ohio and Texas hold their primaries. Clinton is banking on those two states, with their large Latino or blue-collar...
...confronts Day’s disillusion: “Alfred supposed bits of dream would always work out through him now—the way that tiny shrapnel splinters would sometimes break up through his skin, finally leave him.”With sentences such as that, a boring, flat protagonist is not even a possibility—and Day is certainly neither. At first glance, Day could be written off as just plain mad, but Kennedy refuses to allow us to discount her character in the least; she deposits her readers directly in the tempestuous sea of Day?...
...years. "It's been a bonanza time for nondoms - like Christmas every day." But here comes the Grinch. Spurred on by mounting criticism over what many see as unfair special treatment for rich foreigners, the British Treasury has announced that the fun is over. Along with a new 18% flat rate for capital-gains tax, the government is proposing an annual fee of around $60,000 for any foreigner who lives in the country for more than seven years, and wants the tax man to keep his hands off their non-British assets. Anyone unwilling to stump up that...
...writers on animated movies and reality TV shows. The studios, according to a report in the Los Angeles Times, are offering the writers a slightly sweeter deal than they did the directors, paying more for shows that are streamed free on ad-supported web sites. The directors get a flat $1,200 fee for the entire first year of streaming, a prospect that underwhelmed many striking writers...
...making the net, and while it’s great to have 37 attempts, we didn’t find a way to get pucks on net, [and] you don’t score if you don’t hit the net.” Harvard seemed flat at times, especially coming out of the opening gate, as both the best offensive chances and hardest hits belonged to the Bears in the early going. “We had opportunities but we didn’t stay the course,” said Crimson coach Ted Donato...