Word: rackingly
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...target everyone can hate with equal passion is the legal system that placed two families and a child on the rack for 2 1/2 years. Even if the DeBoers, having fallen in love with the baby, could not give up without a fight, their legal help could have advised differently. The DeBoers should have relinquished Jessica immediately, argues Beverly Hills lawyer David Leavitt, one of the country's pre-eminent adoption lawyers: "Any good adoption lawyer understands that if a birth mother changes her mind within a few weeks, and you resist, you're in for terrible grief...
Invoking privilege of any sort goes against the picture of the down-home Arkansan whose natural populist tendencies served him well in the campaign. His Bubba barber of 17 years, his off-the-rack suits, the Governor's mansion with its tattered volleyball net -- these have given way to a Belgian-born hair stylist, Armani jackets and a private jogging track...
...phone companies, with their background in point-to-point switching, tend to focus on connectivity and anything that will rack up message units. They emphasize services that will generate a lot of two-way traffic, such as video phones, video conferencing and long-distance access to libraries...
...only thing that rescues his latest movie, A Leap of Faith, from a one-month rush to the Just In rack at your nearest video store is the audience's hope throughout that it will have some miraculous ending. And something miraculous does happen. The movie ends. If it's really about miracles, Leap of Faith better hope for some at the box office...
...American pop. From the funk styles of James Brown to the fervid testifying of Aretha Franklin and Marvin Gaye, soul music was something you could not only hear but also feel: rhythm without blues, emotion without sentimentality. Then in the '80s a few big record companies discovered they could rack up sales by substituting hyperactive beats and overdressed arrangements for soul's honest impact. Subtle vocal stylists gave way to crooners; soul gave way to dance music, marketed mainly to black listeners. Even powerful singers like Whitney Houston were steered into this aesthetic dead...