Word: pounds
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...disturbing trend? Maybe. Is our appetite for the “torture porn” that the “Saw” franchise provides so insatiable? Do we, the dispossessed and bitter, really crave our yearly pound of flesh from the power-wielding pretty people? Is that what we’re after...
...Even when parents return, the sting of abandonment can linger. In a dimly lit living room in suburban Manila, Rebecca Lucero watches her teenage son, John Patrick, bolt past and pound up the stairs. Lucero says he is a good kid. He does well in school. But, she adds, "I feel uncomfortable around him." She gave birth to her son, now 18, when she was working at a Holiday Inn in Abu Dhabi. She took him back to Manila to live with her mother when he was 3 months old, and left him there for 11 years while she continued...
...figures, their costs had risen dramatically in recent months.“The costs side is out of wack, it’s through the roof,” said b.good co-founder Jon Olinto, who noted that the price of beef had risen from $3.25 per pound to over $4 in the course of three months. “Even though it only seems like 80 cents, that stuff adds up really, really quickly—a burger isn’t just the beef. We work on low margin of profit and economies of scale; we rely...
...guys seem to get jerked around a lot. Is that just part of bull riding? If you do it right, you won't get jerked around. It's more like a give and take. You're never ever going to be as strong as a 2,000-pound bull...
...evinced in his lectures and his 2004 novel “State of Fear.”Ever the inquisitive student, Crichton said in a 2004 interview, “I’m very uncomfortable just accepting. There’s something in me that wants to pound the table and say, ‘That’s not true.’”A new novel by Crichton that had been tentatively due for next month was postponed indefinitely because of his illness, according to publisher HarperCollins.Crichton is survived by his fifth wife and only...