Word: hinting
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...Hong Kong, is crowded with tanks of crabs, fish, frogs and shrimp, which can be taken home wiggling or be expertly gutted and cleaned on the spot. Wal-Mart's push into China - and Brazil and Britain and Germany and deeper into California and New York - offers a hint of why the world's largest retailer seems unfazed by this stinker of a holiday shopping season. Wal-Mart's 3% like-for-like sales increase in the fourth quarter was at the low end of its estimate. But Wal-Mart did better than most and its total sales this year...
...Stevie Wonder,” he says without a hint of pride...
...leave the country. UNMOVIC has made clear that it is unable to take Iraqi scientists abroad if they decline the invitation to travel. "We are not going to abduct anybody," said chief inspector Dr. Hans Blix last month. "And we're not serving as a defection agency." A hint of the problems that may arise emerged recently when UNMOVIC sought a private interview with an Iraqi academic, and the scientist himself insisted on an Iraqi government official being present. Not surprisingly, UNMOVIC is being tight-lipped over just who it plans to ask, and how the process of taking them...
...astonishing recent developments in the space race. With $60 million funding from public and private sources, Pillinger, 59, and his team of hundreds of scientists, engineers and programmers have managed to plan, produce and finance a 34-kg suitcase-sized probe virtually from scratch. There is more than a hint of national pride in his pitch. "We Europeans should not have our noses pressed against the window," says Pillinger, the author of over 260 astronomy papers and keeper of 21 superannuated dairy cows on his Cambridgeshire farm. "Our public deserves a show, like the American public has enjoyed...
...found an inclusive messenger who could help them attract minority votes. And the damage among some white voters could be even greater: Lott may have tainted his party among educated suburban professionals and managers who are sympathetic to the G.O.P. on economic issues but are repulsed by any hint of coded appeals to prejudice. Senator John Ensign, a Nevada Republican, says of Lott's misstep, "It will take a lot of work for us to negate...