Word: nosed
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...from a six-year cross-ownership alliance. This week, Ghosn was in the U.S. for talks with struggling General Motors, to test GM's appetite for forming a three-way alliance. Ghosn is perhaps the automotive industry's most accomplished executive, having pulled both Nissan and Renault out of nose dives. On his way to Detroit, he stopped in New York City to talk with TIME's business editor Bill Saporito. Here are his views on the potential GM hookup...
...waste. The only impulse more natural to me than looking out for myself is looking out for my money. Apparently, 30 bucks is worth more than my life.I’m wearing a skirt, and Simon’s in khakis. But standing in front, with a pointy nose and prudish mouth, I still scare the cars away. We don’t look like guitar toting, hippie hitchhikers. Fortunately, Simon has puppy-dog eyes and baby teeth set on a big head that I can hide behind. He sticks out his thumb and smiles innocently...
...nurse tried to cover her face with a mask. She fought. She whipped her head from side to side, to keep them from clamping the mask down on her nose and mouth. It slipped from her face again and again, and all the time, an unseen child screamed and screamed. Jessi screamed with him as the nurse tried to put her to sleep. "Stop," she heard one of the doctors say. The nurse lifted the mask from her face...
...Shehri, jailed since he was 16, was regularly strapped into a specially designed feeding chair that immobilizes the body at the legs, arms, shoulders and head. Then a plastic tube that is 50% larger, and more painful to insert, than the commonly used variety was inserted up through his nose and down his throat, carrying a nutritional formula into his stomach...
...larger tubes, which experts say have no medical purpose in this context. Al-Shehri's lawyer has also filed court documents citing lesions and bleeding caused when guards held him by the chin and hair, strapped down, as a medical staffer"forcefully inserted the tube in his nose and down his throat" The lawyer also charges that al-Sherhri was subject to verbal and religious abuse during force-feeding, asserting that the tubes"were viewed by the detainees as objects of torture." The records also show that instead of leaving the tube in place to avoid the possible trauma...