Word: flexing
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...this good, so good that it makes you wonder why all the Stones albums since the excellent Some Girls 10 years ago have been so lame. Maybe Richards needed to escape from the restrictions of the Stones' marathon studio sessions and ego circuses in order to stretch and flex his musical muscles...
Ortega seems to have embarked on a calculated gamble. Recognizing that prospects for renewed lethal aid will probably dwindle as the U.S. presidential contest intensifies, the Sandinistas apparently seized the chance to flex their muscles. But the move could backfire. Resolutions condemning Managua's actions whipped through Congress by overwhelming votes (91 to 4 in the Senate; 385 to 18 in the House), and the crackdown could force congressional opponents of contra military aid to reverse field or risk being blamed for "losing" Nicaragua during the fall campaign. Even Democratic Senator Christopher Dodd of Connecticut, a persistent critic...
...room. The Dillon Field House facility is one of a handful in the country with its own X-ray machine and technician, Baker says. In addition, trainers can prescribe ultrasound and electrostimulating treatment or rehab work on a new $35,000 CYBEX isokinetic machine, which regulates resistance as athletes flex injured joints...
...having already established himself as the glib Young Republican Alex Keaton, who's forever offering us the secret of his success. The yuppie image of Fox's earlier roles biased critics against him at the outset. On the other hand, it has given Fox plenty of ammunition to flex his thespian (although rather slight bodily) muscles just enough to give an extremely convincing performance that both Siskel and Ebert admired. And it is quite admirable. Jamie Conway is a truly desperate soul, quite close to dulling his own smug-young-New Yorker edge...
This newly affluent class is spearheading a peaceful but dramatic revolution in which blacks, who outnumber whites nearly 5 to 1 in South Africa, are starting to flex their economic muscle as earners and consumers. Blacks will pay an estimated total of $350 million in taxes this year, up from $58 million two years ago. Increasing numbers of blacks are working in middle-class professions as lawyers, doctors, psychiatrists, engineers, tax consultants and stockbrokers. Black businesses, large and small, are sprouting like mushrooms. The South African Black Taxi Association, for example, has increased its + membership fivefold, to 45,000, since...