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...take a nine-month vacation and the government will pay for that, too" - referring to severance packages, unemployment benefits, unused time-off and other subsidies that would come their way. Greg Barton, an equities trader with NWT Financial, was also optimistic as the trading day began, predicting a modest bounce by day's end. After the bounce fizzled at the close of trading, Barton said volatility remains because there's no real consensus which way the market is going. "When it's up, people want to sell. When it's down, people want...
...Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist,” who spend a life-changing night on a sleepless quest to hear their favorite underground band.In discussing the choices they’ve made in their careers and their recent glimpses of fame, both actors come across as modest and reserved. Though Dennings was much more talkative than her costar, who gave little more than one-line answers. It’s easy to assume that Cera and his characters are one and the same—and he didn’t offer up much to confirm...
...weave!”) to absurd (“Oh no… I think I have gas” and “Groupies!”). Inexplicably, a bald woman thinks, “Pull my hair.” Women are crazy. Ludacris, the rapper whose modest height will always belie his astronomical self-esteem, constantly reminds us that he both subjugates women and deeply respects them. After spitting “So get loose and slide off your damn garments / Show ’em who’s the boss, they take orders from...
...coupling rod of the middle wheel slowly and rhythmically turned and straightened. Ollie immediately recognized Felicity’s elegant head as she sat in one of the little passenger cars. He glanced at her again—not because she was very beautiful, not because of the modest grace that could be seen in her whole figure, but because there was something especially gentle and tender in the cleavage exposed by the low neckline of her dress. It was as if a surplus of something so overflowed her bodice that it expressed itself beyond her will.An Italian costumed...
Showing me to the front gate of his modest central Islamabad home this week, former foreign minister Abdul Sattar visibly shudders as he recalls the sound of the explosion as the Marriott went up. "Horrible," he says. "The whole thing is horrible. You can hardly go out anymore without worrying" There's still lingering hope that the new government can improve security and get the economy humming again. But perhaps the scariest part of comparing Islamabad to Baghdad is the knowledge that things got much worse in Iraq before they got better...