Word: gal
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...finds a compatible mate. But The Girl (Catherine Keener) was hardly a character at all; her only function was to unleash a hearty laugh whenever Carell passed a joke. Alison, granted, is more prominent and complicated here. But for all the lip service Apatow pays to the guy-gal plot of Knocked Up, he invests much more energy and affection in the scenes of Ben with his friends and, emphatically, with Pete - who is the one person in the movie Ben really falls for. It's another old plot: beauty and the beast...
These days we are looking hard at the cost of cars to purse and planet. Gas prices are up 36% since December, to a record $3.22 a gal., and environmental concerns are at an all-time high as well. It is easy to find surveys that show people saying they will slow down, shop online, carpool, eat out less. Seven in 10 drivers say they will scale back their driving with prices this high...
...necessarily follow. Even if prices keep rising, 2 out of 3 drivers say they will never switch to buses. It can now cost $130 to fill the tank of an SUV, yet SUV sales have shot up 25% over the past year. In 2000, when gas cost $2 a gal., fuel efficiency ranked 29th on the list of features car buyers cared about. With gasoline prices higher than ever before, that priority has climbed all the way up to ... 22nd place...
...your new movie Paranoid Park, the main character, Alex Tremain, is told by his tough gal pal Macy that if he wants to expiate his troubled thoughts, he should express them by writing to someone, whether or not the letter is ever sent. Since I was kind of bewildered by the movie, I've decided to write to you, and ask: WHAT WERE YOU THINKING...
...April 9 story on global warming, we said public transit in the U.S. saves an estimated 1.4 billion gal. of gas annually, which translates into about 1.5 million tons of CO2. In fact, that amount of gas translates to about 14 million tons...