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...starts with some advantages. Unlike Snow, who was well liked and accessible but was known to wing it with the facts, former college debater Perino is detailed and careful, qualities that often go unnoticed by the general public but are prized by reporters on deadline who need a quick and reliable source of specifics. And she has retained the easygoing self-confidence of the Rocky Mountain West, where she grew up spending summers and holidays at her grandparents' cattle ranch in Wyoming. Her delivery has none of Ari Fleischer's arrogance or Scott McClellan's anxiety. Many of her predecessors...
...complete or loved ones to placate. Stress is internal, he insists. Make a rational assessment of your situation with all its requirements and flaws--consider, for instance, the past behavior of your customers, your colleagues, your spouse--adjust your expectations accordingly, and the stress will vanish. He gives some quick examples. "I'm in New York. There will be traffic," he says, smiling calmly. "My wife is an irritable person." he observes. "If I say, 'Darling, get me a cup of tea.' She says, 'I'm not a servant. Get your own tea.' If I hear this, I know...
...tracking living organisms as they are for tracking library books. Vets have been implanting RFID chips in pets for years, and there's a NASDAQ-traded company called VeriChip that manufactures RFID chips specifically for use in human beings, the idea being that the chips would provide a quick and reliable way to store and retrieve emergency medical information; VeriChip is also marketed in South America as a way to track kidnap victims. But it's not hard to imagine more Orwellian scenarios, in which prison inmates or even immigrants would be tagged with RFID implants to make it easier...
...political opportunism behind the recent protests. With India's coalition government crumbling thanks to a falling-out with its Leftist supporters over a contentious nuclear deal with the U.S., elections could be called any time now. An issue like organized retail helps rally millions, and opposition parties have been quick to latch on to it. More mass protests and populist moves to clamp down on big retail - like the Uttar Pradesh government's order to shut down Reliance Fresh - can be expected in the months to come...
...again work ensue before Baird heads off to the Sablière punch party, hoping she’s in “a fit state to work” when she returns. She is. But the ticking clock isn’t her only remaining obstacle. After a quick fitting with model Erinn V. Westbrook ’10, Baird sews together the seam of the dress… backwards. Time for take two. “I think this will work,” she says. “And if not…let?...