Word: mop
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...know that New Line [the studio releasing the films] would have preferred us to have a little catch-up," says the director, sitting in an office in Wellington, New Zealand, speaking in a cheerful Kiwi accent and peering from behind a mop of curls and plate-size wire-rim glasses. "But I think that's a very TV kind of device. I figured the amount of people going to see Two Towers without seeing Fellowship would be fairly minute. If you can't at least spend $3 or $4 to rent it before you see Two Towers, there...
...Whether he can continue to mop up cell-phone subscribers, however, remains to be seen. India's notoriously obstructionist regulatory policies are being reformed, allowing prices to slide and competition to increase. The market has drawn potent players in the form of cell-phone subsidiaries backed by foreign heavyweights such as Hong Kong's Hutchison Whampoa and AT&T Wireless. Other rivals are piling in: a government phone company, Bharat Sanchar Nigam, is expanding its mobile network. And in December, India's powerful Ambani family, which controls Reliance Industries, India's largest private sector company, is launching a discount national...
...cheaper to lease. Last week, E.U. transport Commissioner Loyola de Palacio - a Spaniard - called on member states to quickly enact individual bans on single-hulled tankers in European waters. Efforts to clean up the benighted coast have been hindered by poor weather. The work has rapidly become an onshore mop-up exercise rather than an offshore recovery, partly due to the nature of the oil. With a consistency like that of chewing gum, the oil is stubborn and impervious to dispersants - the first choice in dealing with spills - which break the oil up into small droplets that are further dispersed...
...promises you’ll get in, but warm up’,” Rose recalls. “I would’ve taken anything, but in the fourth quarter, Coach looks at me and says, ‘You’re not a mop...
...Saturday, Fitzpatrick’s only snaps at quarterback came in mop-up duty. The quarterback controversy seems to be over...