Word: hauntings
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...capital here; few diners in Chinatown could identify a member of Hong Kong's ruthless triads; unless they're very unlucky-or foolish-revelers can blithely blow their spending money in the strip clubs and girlie bars of Kings Cross without encountering the standover men and drug dealers who haunt the shadows...
...arms is long. In the U.S., a starting pitcher typically throws between 100 and 140 pitches a game. In Japan, 200-pitch games are not unheard of. The wear-and-tear on Matsuzaka's arm from his torrid schedule as a high-schooler might well come back to haunt him. "I worry about his future because he throws a lot compared to American pitchers and even other Japanese pitchers," says Isao Ojimi, a former pro player in Japan who now scouts talent for the New York Mets. "Managers in Japan aren't worried about their players' futures, they only care...
They're red herrings, naturally. The Spencer house really is ghost-ridden. But once that fact is established, What Lies Beneath begins to succumb to a common genre problem. When the haunt ceases to be a set of eerie manifestations and begins to take on shape and form, all the spooky fun tends to drain out of these pictures. This one becomes a variation on the Fatal Attraction theme, but with more muscular action and, finally, a lot less plausibility. That's too bad, because the early wit of Clark Gregg's writing and some persuasive direction and playing...
...past 20 years. Yet by one Energy Department estimate, the country needs 1,000 new plants in the next two decades. As Steve Fleishman, an analyst at Merrill Lynch, notes, "The country underinvested in the energy sector in the last decade, and it's coming back to haunt...
...make them feel sexy - a ride in which they could still imagine taking a date. And when Lincoln promotes its Navigator as an "Urban Assault Luxury Vehicle" it's tapping a deep-seated vein of anxiety: The SUV, say researchers, projects aggression, warning off the criminals that researchers insist haunt the subconscious of the SUV driver...