Word: nosing
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...Most China analysts, though, expect these difficulties to disappear after the Olympics. "They're having a few jitters, but China isn't going to cut off its nose to spite its face," says Kent Kedl, a consultant at Technomic Asia, a Shanghai-based market strategy firm. Plans are already afoot to give Hong Kong permanent residents of any nationality visa-free access to the mainland within the next few years, the kind of privilege that millions of Asians who work in the West can only dream about. "Getting my Chinese staff to the U.S. is an absolute nightmare," says Kedl...
...plastic surgery practice’s effect on families, he decided to respond in the most effective way possible: by writing a children’s book. Entitled “My Perfect Mommy,” the tale tells of a young girl whose mother undergoes a nose job, tummy tuck, and breast augmentation. Aiming his story at a four- to seven-year-old audiences, Salzhauer is ostensibly attempting to allay the apprehension of children whose mothers go under the cosmetic scalpel. (See correction below...
...Perfect Mommy” reads more like a brainwashing brochure than an educational pamphlet. Despite undergoing several serious procedures, each with possible complications, the fictional mother emerges looking like a mildly bruised Stepford wife, a single dainty bandage running across her nose...
...Weidig.O’Neill squared around to bunt with two strikes on him in the bottom of the fourth inning, but only managed to foul tip the ball, which deflected squarely into the rookie’s nose.Blood flowed out of O’Neill’s nose as he hit the ground, and Walsh and the Harvard trainer came out of the dugout to attend to him. O’Neill eventually left the field on his own power to a round of applause from the crowd.“The good thing was it wasn?...
...current charge against Bardot was lodged by the Movement Against Racism and for Friendship between Peoples (MRAP), citing a letter Bardot wrote to French officials in 2004 in which she alluded to Muslims as "this population that leads us around by the nose, [and] which destroys our country." The former actress-turned-animal rights crusader had written that letter to protest the ritual slaughter of sheep during the Muslim festival of Eid-al-Kabir. Her missive, whose contents were later leaked to the media, had been sent to then-Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy, whose rising popularity was based in part...