Word: flips
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...room also came outfitted with permanently-there hairballs on the randomly-chosen rugs, belching pipes, a well-entrenched lard-like slime colony on the bathroom floor, and a central bathroom drain that sends the smells of several other toilets wafting up near mine. As long as I have flip-flops lashed to my feet, though, it’s quite tolerable. For 20 hours of classroom time per week, I earn 4,000 yuan per month—about $500. The school slips in 300 yuan per month for transportation and 100 yuan per hour of overtime. In a city...
...There are, of course, some logical inconsistencies in the fact that conservatives, who for years have fought against anything resembling national testing standards, appear to have no problem whatsoever with scripting a national no-sex ed curriculum. This flip-flop would be slightly easier to swallow if a) there was a groundswell of support for the approach (parents, on the contrary, in survey after survey support teaching abstinence in concert with birth control) or b) there was convincing evidence that this program works...
...proved to be a clever distributor. He secretly installs a bar code in each PDA so when his reps visit retail shops, they can detect when distributors poach on one another's territory. But Zhang's magic bullet in the PDA wars is a sleek regulation-blue Police PDA. Flip open the lid, press a button and the detailed files of some 300,000 criminal suspects are just a tap away. Given the size of China's vast law-and-order bureaucracy, Zhang hopes eventually to sell several hundred thousand Police PDAs to the security ministry. Next up, says Zhang...
...Okay, I'm being flip. But there is a point to this. Microbes attack us all the time, and it doesn't make front page news. Our bodies are built to handle them. We welcome their presence, in fact, because they keep our immune system constantly on its toes, ready for any real invaders...
From the CO2 emissions flip to the arsenic-standards flap to the energy-plan-rollout flop, George W. Bush has spent much of his presidency battling the popular impression that his White House, particularly on environmental issues, is operating under a corporate sponsorship. And some Republican poll-watchers think Bush?s only way to convince the public that his version of "balance" does more than pad Big Business? balance sheet is to borrow a page from Al Gore?s campaign handbook. "They haven?t given anyone a reason to believe Bush isn?t doing the bidding of corporate America...