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Iraq's coffers may technically be burgeoning with billions of petrodollars, but over the summer, the vaults of some branches of the country's two main state-owned commercial banks, the Rafidain and Rasheed, were empty. A kink in the supply chain owing to miscommunication among several financial bodies meant that the flow of physical bank notes to some provinces like Diyala was reduced to a trickle. There was no shortage of cash on the streets of the province, but government pensions and salaries were delayed, as were payments to contractors, who in turn didn't have the cold hard...
...trunk of a car. This time, Bettie shared the screen with another woman, usually Roz Greenwood - the star couldn't put herself in bondage. But the performers never got hurt; at times you'll catch them giggling at the indignities they were asked to portray. If there's kink it's pure nostalgia. Kids today, seeing these (and they do), probably think it's kinky that their granddads thought it was kinky...
...look at the biggest decline in heart disease deaths in Massachusetts overall, you see a kink in 2004. It’s not a general [phenomenon]—something happened in 2004,” said Joel Schwartz, an HSPH and Harvard Medical School professor who was involved in research for the study...
...start immediately, when eight riders bunch up atop a three-story hill. At "go," expect a show. "You go 5 ft., then 'kink,' it drops almost straight down, about 60°," says Donny Robinson, the top-ranked rider for the U.S. men. "It's like going down a roller coaster, a 'just hang on' kind of thing." The racers will all be moving at 40 m.p.h., jostling for inside position. Calamities are commonplace: face it; that's part of the appeal. "Anyone here who tells you they haven't crashed is a liar," says fellow American Kyle Bennett...
...proceedings, so I'm not spoiling much - is a young man (played by Joseph Cross) bereft over his father's suicide, and driven to punish those he believes responsible. Don't blame me, blame society. Sadly, this sympathy-for-the-devil tone permeates modern psychiatry: it says that every kink can be traced to some genetic mistake or childhood trauma. Can't anyone, in fiction or real life, just be a bad person...