Word: hiccuped
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...Build-A-Bear outlived its cutefulness? No, argues Amy Ryan, an analyst with New York City--based ThinkEquity: "This is a hiccup. It's a retail concept that matures in a different pattern than most retailers." New Build-A-Bear stores start out so strongly that comp-store sales a year later tend to be lower, she says, so investors have to adjust their expectations. "Build-A-Bear is not a fad," Ryan says. The company plans to open 30 more shops in 2005, expand its line of licensed merchandise, introduce "friends 2B made"--a new make-a-doll concept...
...convinced that Ratzinger was perfectly positioned to succeed John Paul II. "Anything can happen of course," the source told me. "Ratzinger could wake up Monday with a cold." There's obviously no way to know if some undecided cardinals saw a sign from above in Ratzinger's minor health hiccup, or if it reminded others that he may be too old. But the rest of us are looking for signals everywhere while we wait for the only one that counts: the Sistine's white smoke. As expected, the first puff this evening was black, though the atmosphere in St. Peter...
...their teens, hopping from job to job and date to date, having fun but seemingly going nowhere. Ten years ago, we might have called them Generation X, or slackers, but those labels don't quite fit anymore. This isn't just a trend, a temporary fad or a generational hiccup. This is a much larger phenomenon, of a different kind and a different order...
...precedence over the more languid shoegazer pieces of yore. But even if it is the most “live” Luna album, it’s still far from raw: the songs are still finely chiseled. One gets the feeling that by now the distinguished Wareham could hiccup out songs that most aspiring bands would kill to write...
...member states, plus Turkey. Verheugen's pink cheeks beamed from the front page of every newspaper, while posters proclaimed: citizen verheugen! welcome to greater europe! Nothing spoiled the fun - not an attack by Kurdish militants on a nearby police outpost during his stay, nor even a last-minute hiccup over a Turkish measure that would have criminalized adultery. Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who at first supported the adultery proposal to appease conservative allies, agreed to drop it, and last week pushed a 700-page package of penal-code reforms through parliament. "We have worked hard and we have...