Word: flipped
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...would like to buy her some nice things. He, however, reckons without Anton Chigurh (Javier Bardem), who is an all-star psychopath. His preferred murder weapon is a pneumatic device the ranchers use to put livestock out of their misery and he sometimes asks his potential victims to flip a coin. If they call the toss correctly they live; if they don't they die. Across from him in McCarthy's radically simplified story structure is Ed Tom Bell (Tommy Lee Jones), the patient and taciturn local sheriff. He comes from a long line of lawmen, and is having trouble...
...shabby T-shirt and flip-flops, Peter Ndivo looks an unlikely combatant in a battle with environmentalists thousands of miles away. Yet, Ndivo's three-acre farm in rural Kenya is in the front line of a dispute that pitches eco-minded Western consumers against poor African communities: The consumers, concerned by the global-warming effect of burning jet fuel to fly produce from distant lands to European supermarkets, are pressing supermarkets to curb such imports; the farmers see flying fashionable baby aubergines and mange tout peas to Europe as their ticket out of poverty...
What about all the individual investors who jumped into the housing boom to flip homes and were left with hundreds of homes to sell when the music stopped...
...those people were all about greed. And where is it written that thou art entitled to flip a profit? Not anywhere I know of. So I'm not very sympathetic. And the fact that all of these investors allowed their greed to overcome their fear--that's the way the world works...
Reading William Kristol's commentary�on why a Republican could win the White House in 2008 made me flip to the cover and double-check the date [Nov. 5]. Kristol must be living in a time warp that sent him back to 1978 if he can describe today's Republican Party as the "anti-Big Government party" and the "party that understands war" while calling the Democrats the "party of big spending." I guess Kristol was away when his party reconvened Congress to interfere with the decision to end Terri Schiavo's life; sent gallant troops to Iraq ill-equipped...