Word: jimming
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...jump-start demand at home, and if the U.S. addresses its budget shortfall--well, we may just escape this jam without a scratch. That's a lot of ifs. But, thankfully, everyone has something at stake. --With reporting by Steve Barnes/ Little Rock, Paul Cuadros/Chapel Hill, Matt Forney/ Beijing, Jim Frederick/Tokyo, Peter Gumbel and Jonathan Shenfield/Paris, Eric Roston/Washington, Michael Schuman/Hong Kong, Joe Szczesny/ Detroit, Charles P. Wallace/Berlin and Leslie Whitaker/Chicago...
Besides, the findings don't take into account the quality of sleep you get. Although surveys suggest that we get less sleep than folks did a century ago, that's not necessarily a problem. "Our sleeping environments are better than they ever have been," says Jim Horne, director of the Sleep Research Center at Loughborough University in England. In Victorian workhouses, to give just one example, folks used to sit on benches and drape themselves on long ropes, called hang-overs, to sleep. They must have got used to it, Horne says. Indeed, the sleep system can be very flexible...
...mind-set," he says. "You have to look for solutions to [customers'] problems." Oh, yeah, Yashiro makes money too. The bank's profits jumped 25% last year, to $637 million. "Things are changing in Japan," he says. "A little too slowly for my liking, but they are changing." By Jim Frederick/Tokyo
...movie’s ideal is Forman, who has been demoted at work, is unable to express his emotions, has had to take out a second mortgage to pay the bills, is expecting a new child at 52 and treats his daughters like he’s Jim Anderson, the patriarch of “Father Knows Best.” Basically, the people we are all being trained to be—concentrated on success in our chosen fields without understanding what it feels like to be happy—are doomed to never be at peace. Most...
...three Baudelaire orphans in Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events manage to endure; using their courage and ingenuity, they survive every mishap in the “series of unfortunate events” that comes their way. The children are constantly pursued by Count Olaf (Jim Carrey), the crafty villain who dons multiple disguises and comes up with outrageous plans to kill the Baudelaires, hoping to inherit their massive family fortune...