Word: pour
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...shaping clay vessels to be baked in the school kiln. Down the hall, students are dabbing acrylic paints on canvas to create vivid still lifes à la Vincent van Gogh. At 10:49, when the 82-min. arts period ends, kids of all sizes, colors and sartorial stripes pour out of classrooms, jostling and joking, filling the hallway with the buzz of pubescent energy. Then it's off to language arts, math, social studies and the array of other subjects offered at this sprawling arena for adolescents...
...Economists predict that the Chinese government will gradually allow the yuan to appreciate?Deutsche Bank expects a 10% gain against the U.S. dollar over the next two years. And as the Chinese currency strengthens, the economic consequences become harder to foresee and control. Hot money could pour into China from speculators looking to profit from additional yuan gains, undoing Beijing's efforts to curtail excessive spending and lending in overheating sectors of the economy such as real estate. Also, if the yuan goes up by 10%, "you start to worry about China's competitiveness," says William Fung, managing director...
...Watering Wondercan The spout on Oxo's new Pour & Store is clear (for tracking water flow) and swings in for compact storage. The nonslip grip helps avoid spills; $15 on oxo.com...
...spout on Oxo's new Pour & Store is clear (for tracking water flow) and swings in for compact storage. The nonslip grip helps avoid spills; $15 on oxo.com...
...When visiting a friend, he was invited to take a drink, but declined, on the score of his pledge ... his friend suggested lemonade, which was accepted. In preparing the lemonade, the friend pointed to the brandy-bottle, and said the lemonade would be more palatable if he were to pour in a little brandy; when his guest said, if he could do so 'unbeknown' to him, he would not object." Sherman grasped the point immediately. "Mr. Lincoln wanted [Jefferson] Davis to escape, 'unbeknown...