Word: pinches
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...Iraq] is being paid for by borrowing. The increase in drug benefits is being paid for by borrowing. Nobody's been asked to do anything," Sachs says. But if America faces some belt tightening, doesn't it follow that the rest of the world will feel the pinch? Not necessarily, argues Tyson: So long as the rest of the world doesn't suddenly stop financing the U.S. deficits--forcing Washington to take radical action--the global economy can handle the adjustment. The rest of the world is hoping that she's right...
...enough minutes in the day," says Tom Loveless, who taught in California for nine years and is now director of the Brown Center on Education Policy at the Brookings Institution. "You have to have kids tackling subject matter together as a group. That's a shoe that will pinch for someone." Since the passage of the No Child Left Behind Act, which requires schools to show progress in reading and math test scores in Grades 3 through 8 across all racial and demographic groups, parents are worried that teachers will naturally focus on getting as many students as possible over...
...soda, no juice) offers up blueberry-flavored Gefilte Fizz, sour apple Santa Sauce (which tastes like a melted Jolly Rancher candy) and a cranberry-tinged Turkey Slurpy. All three can be ordered at www.oopstuff.com Also available is Pepsi Holiday Spice, which is regular Pepsi with a peppy pinch of ginger and cinnamon...
...think that Neil Rudenstine...was rather uncomfortable with the idea that someone on his right-hand side would tell him what to do in a pinch,” MacFarquhar says...
...soft pastel colors, or a whiff of an evening dress in beaded chiffon. Nobody knows better than Lagerfeld that fashion is not about art but about selling clothes. Indeed, it may cost the house of Chanel millions of dollars to pull off the whole Kidman campaign. But why pinch pennies? At a trunk show at Bergdorf Goodman in New York City last spring, the brand pulled in $3.1 million in a single day. Now that's the kind of nice behavior everyone appreciates...