Word: flexing
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...Most Surreal Moment - Watching Marines arrive at my detention facility and unload a truck load of flex-cuffed midgets. 26 to be exact. We had put the word out earlier in the day to the Marines in Fallujah that we were looking for Bad Guy X, who was described as a midget. Little did I know that Fallujah was home to a small community of midgets, who banded together for support since they were considered as social outcasts. The Marines were anxious to get back to the midget colony to bring in the rest of the midget suspects...
Flexible employment--flex time, part time, job sharing and telecommuting--is more and more important to today's workers, and it's among the top criteria AARP uses when choosing its annual Best Employers for Workers over 50 list. Mercy Health System in Janesville, Wis., another health-care provider, topped the list last month partly because of its snowbird program, which is designed to make it easy for staff members to escape Wisconsin's brutal winters. Carondelet and Mercy are the only two companies on the AARP list of 50 with snowbird programs, but Deborah Russell, who puts together...
...predicts that global growth will soon vanish as sales flatten in 2009 at 111.1 million cameras, and then begin to sink in 2010. Things look even soggier through the revenue lens. Retail prices will plummet as they always have, especially as consumer-electronics powerhouses like Samsung, Panasonic and BenQ flex their distribution muscles to grab at market share from the other vendors ahead of them - Sony, Kodak, Olympus, Nikon, Fujifilm, HP and Casio - and from leader of the pack Canon. IDC sees an end to revenue growth for the foreseeable future, as the 10% growth in unit sales will translate...
...Revolution" protests, Hizballah leader Hassan Nasrallah brought hundreds of thousands of supporters into the streets of the capital. Iran, Hizballah's chief international patron, will also not be pleased to see Hizballah's wings clipped - Tehran is under fire at the U.N. over its nuclear ambitions, and needs to flex all the strategic muscle it can muster...
Averaging 6 ft. 2 in., shortboards increasingly feature new core materials, fabrics and resins borrowed from other industries to allow riders more flex, speed and maneuverability. Fiberglass and polyester...