Word: flutterer
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...penultimate testing phase, has had its Java removed. Java is the plug-and-play web application that works on any machine. It is the code behind most of the animation on tens of thousands of websites out there. It is what, for many years, made the American flag flutter at whitehouse.gov, and examples don't get much more patriotic than that...
...hair is immaculately parted over a wide, tanned forehead and small, almost feminine ears. His eyes are hooded, the eyelids drooping through the gold, wire-frame glasses. As he speaks, his hands flutter, join, then roll to make a point. What he projects, more than anything else, is earnestness. He wants to do a good job: in this interview, in the morning briefing, running Taiwan...
...addition of all manner of fatal obstacles including trailers, other cars and pedestrians. Sewer covers fly and, in a nod to Marilyn Monroe’s (in)famous moment, the wind left in the wake of the race cars causes a woman’s skirt to flutter upwards...
...administration's handling of the crisis, there are growing calls for various forms of economic and political pressure on Beijing. The diplomatic route may be ultimately more productive, but it's also necessarily a prolonged one, and that won't sit comfortably with U.S. TV audiences watching yellow ribbons flutter in the northwestern breeze and hearing talking heads make ludicrous comparisons to the Iran hostage crisis. The Bush administration may need the active support of congressional leaders on both sides of the aisle in the coming days to head off domestic political pressure for a stronger stand. Because one thing...
...long to catch Hanssen? Senate Intelligence Committee chairman Richard Shelby wants to know, "Why didn't someone finger him in some way?" Why does the FBI have less stringent standards for checking up on its people than other agencies have? The CIA has long employed routine polygraph tests to "flutter" agents every five years to search out misbehavior. Those tests are controversial, and Freeh has resisted using them, despite pressure from his own National Security Division managers to do so ever since the 1994 debacle. There must be "a happy medium," says former CIA chief Jim Woolsey, between overzealous, career...