Word: messes
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...trust Mrs. Smith, whom can you trust? "The labels are all distorted," says Donna Krone, 41, an attorney in New York City who tries to sandwich a healthy diet into her high-pressure workweek. "The whole mess makes me want to just give up and order in Chinese food...
...that the picture will be a hit -- not because it is so smart about many small things but because it is so shameless in promoting its one big thing. Like the other sigh-fi movies, Regarding Henry says any mortal catastrophe offers an opportunity to erase the chalkboard mess we have made of our lives. We can make amends and have great sex too. By serving up comfy antidotes to illness and death, these movies provide a seductively meretricious form of release: New Age religion on the cheap. How like Hollywood to insist that the slogging drama of most people...
...classic rap posture, black male division, of course: turning the comic-book white fantasy of the black male as a murderous sexual stud into a hyperbolic reality. Rappers like N.W.A. and Public Enemy want to scare the living hell out of white America -- and sell it a whole mess of records -- by making its worst racial nightmares come true...
...Weather Service get into such a mess? Part of the problem is bureaucratic: the NWS falls under the sway of the Commerce Department, which has never shown much understanding of or interest in the science or technology of weather prediction. Pinched by tight budgets and layoffs over the past decade, the agency was very nearly shut down under the Reagan Administration, which in its zeal to privatize government operations briefly proposed selling off the Weather Service's satellite network to the highest bidder. Public outcry forced the White House to scrap its plans...
...poor," had a last-minute change of heart. In April the President's office ordered the withdrawal of $3.6 million in U.S. currency from the Central Bank, plus the equivalent of $5 million more in Nicaraguan cordobas. Francisco Mayorga, who, as Chamorro's first Central Bank president, inherited the mess that the Sandinistas left behind, estimates that a total of $24 million was looted from the bank...