Word: nest
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...This puts the kibosh on our new PC game: Super Jean-Yves EUROPEAN VERMIN New study says that an Ebola-like virus, not rats, caused the Black Plague. Rats, it turns out, were actually responsible for the Renaissance Losers WILT CHAMBERLAIN Late basketball star's $4.3 million "luxury love nest," including water-bed floor, still unsold. Come on, over 20,000 women can't be wrong PENTHOUSE READERS 94-year-old Dercy Goncalves will pose nude in the magazine's Brazilian edition. Editors say she's so hot that she can pass for 93, easy JOHN REESE Student pilot crashes...
...Leading the Ox Up By Its Nose?exactly describes the gradient. A statue of Kannon with a horse's head commemorates the pack animals whom no amount of nasal persuasion could keep from collapse. That night we stay in Hosokute at a wooden inn, last rebuilt in 1880. Swallows nest inside the doorway, as they have for generations. The floor flexes under our feet as we step gingerly across knotholes and gaps in the boards. But the plumbing is modern: warmed and soothed by a soak in the deep, hot bath, we eat dinner wearing long, cotton yukata gowns...
...Indeed, the cure is more hotly debated than what ails the system. Bush and his top aides argue that allowing Americans to put a part of their Social Security nest egg into personal retirement accounts makes good sense for the retirees and the system as a whole. The return on Social Security is pitifully low, they complain, an argument appealing to younger voters who are just starting to pay into the system. They have more experience than their elders in playing the stock market where there can be higher returns. "It's wrong to mislead people with promises of 'trust...
...This may not be a great time to be touting the virtues of the stock market. Employees who depend on 401K's for much of their retirement have seen that nest eggs dramatically shrink this year because of the current bear market. Privatization critics also dispute the conventional wisdom that Social Security provides a low rate of return. It's not just a retirement program, they contend, but an insurance and disability program as well, and when you factor in all those potential long-term benefits, Social Security is a package few Wall Street houses could match...
...times better than that cooked on one costing $200, any more than people who buy Manolo Blahniks expect to be able to walk 30 times as far as those who wear Keds. The backyard has become part of the home-improvement trend that market researchers call "fluffing the nest." The grill has entered the world of luxury goods, status symbols, showmanship and precision performance. Kalamazoo, a small company in Michigan, sells its customized sculptural grills largely for their beauty. Boris Yeltsin has one at his dacha, according to the company. It's no accident that stainless steel--functional, low maintenance...