Word: flips
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...line to online. When the 50-year-old manager of the Brown Shoe Co. loses an employee, what does he do? He reaches for the phone to put an ad in the paper because that's what he's always done. What's his son going to do? Flip open his laptop. That's evolutionary. It's a gradual process. We're trying to make it revolutionary. I'm glad I'm on our side, not theirs. But they'll diversify...
...world turned inside out on Tuesday, when short-term interest rates inched higher than long-term interest rates. That's not the natural order. On Wall Street, this rate flip-flop is known as an inverted yield curve. It's a relatively rare occurrence, and one that always drags out economic Chicken Littles. But the sky is not falling on this expansion just...
Harvard opened the game on a 22-11 run and led by at least five for the remainder of the first half. The win improves the Crimson’s mark to 8-0 when leading at the break, compared to 0-3 when trailing. On the flip side, the Raiders are now 0-6 when trying to come from behind after halftime, but they are 5-0 when ahead...
...like to keep their finger on the pulse of the student body, there is an “Endpaper” at the back of each issue. This is essentially a personal essay in which students describe how ostensibly lame and depressing their lives are and then try to flip the script and claim that they are perfectly content. They generally achieve this effect through flowery prose, self-delusion, and false claims that they “go into Boston a lot.” In other words, if you’re thinking of killing yourself, you should read...
...defender while wearing one shoe? When he stopped on a dime, watched a Fresno State defender fly by and darted across the field for a 50-yd. touchdown? Perhaps his quantum leap over a UCLA cornerback, legs split high in the air la Michael Jordan, finished with a flip into the end zone like a Hollywood stuntman? Bush, downplaying his theatrics, won't pick a favorite. "It's just like playing football with your friends out in the street," he told TIME...