Word: minnow
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...standing in beaver territory, you had better be wearing hip boots. An ungainly waddler ashore, Castor canadensis spends 80% of its life in water, where it's as agile as a 50-lb. minnow. Dam building is its way of making the world a wetter, safer and more convenient place. Only humans alter their environment more drastically...
...geopolitical competitor to the U.S. but by economic measure, its peers would be the likes of Mexico and Argentina. Its UN Security Council veto power may have given it equal importance to Germany and France in the European camp opposing the war in Iraq, but it remains an economic minnow by European standards - if Russia's GDP per capita doubles in the next decade, it would equal today's figure for Portugal...
...significant international arms dealer," but the degree of his apparent gullibility (wouldn't an arms kingpin have known something about suppliers and fake weapons, or at least become suspicious about last-minute negotiators?) immediately led to speculation that the bureau had used a drift net to catch a minnow. Indeed, there is no evidence tying Lakhani to any terrorist group (though he did refer to Americans as "bastards" on an FBI tape), nor is there anything to explain why a man who until three years ago owned a clothing business would have been interested in weapons brokering. Still, says...
...Apparel may survive is that it's a niche, value-added player. Its shirts are made with fine-knitted cotton with a higher yarn count than the typical T, making for a softer feel. Even if the company boosts sales fivefold, to $100 million, it will still be a minnow in the $10 billion U.S. imprintable T-shirt industry. But Charney is convinced that having a factory in America is critical to his success. "I'm a free-trader," he says. "I have no problem with lifting quotas and tariffs. I know my product will be better...
Still, I remember feeling violated at the time and as powerless as a minnow in a flash flood. Someone was invading my private space--my family's private space--and there was nothing I or the authorities could do. It was as close to a technological epiphany as I have ever been. And as I watched my personal digital hell unfold, it struck me that our privacy--mine and yours--has already disappeared, not in one Big Brotherly blitzkrieg but in Little Brotherly moments...