Word: rugs
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Jackson Pollock couldn't sleep. The next night would see the opening of the first gallery show devoted to his new drip paintings. For months he had flung lashing tangles of color onto canvases laid across the floor. Literally slapdash, yet as intricately woven as a Persian rug, his pictures pointed the way to the future--or would if anyone noticed. So Pollock sat up late with his sister-in-law. To comfort him, she read his palm. He was going to be a very famous painter, she promised...
...trail, Cheney sounded ever more hawkish. He had been outraged by Saddam's attempt in 1993 to assassinate former President Bush in Kuwait, and he thought the short bombing campaign after Iraq kicked out the U.N. inspectors in 1998 was a joke. "We have swept that problem under the rug for too long," he told a campaign aide in 2000, speaking of Iraq. "We have a festering problem there...
Another antiviral drug, called pleconaril, had the rug pulled out from under it last March when the U.S. Food and Drug Administration declined to approve it, citing concerns that pleconaril might interfere with the effectiveness of oral contraceptives and other drugs. To combat that problem, Viropharma, the biotech company that developed pleconaril, decided to reformulate the pill, turning it into a nasal spray, thereby lowering its dose and the chance that it might interfere with other drugs. Viropharma is now looking for another pharmaceutical company to help defray the costs of testing the new formula...
...street at Ron's barbershop, where she cuts hair, Melissa Meyer has been polling customers about their feelings on Iraq. Eighty percent of them, she says, are for going to war and cleaning up a mess they suspect will only grow messier if it gets swept under the rug. Her father Bob Meyer, a retired corporate executive and a gun owner whose politics are conservative, says he can't understand the liberals and the pacifists. "They want to disarm me," he says, "but they don't want to disarm Saddam Hussein...
...COSTS. Reverse mortgages involve costs, just like regular mortgages, that can eat up any financial advantage in the short term. These costs often get swept under the rug in the sales pitch because they are not up-front charges but are subtracted from the amount the borrower eventually receives. Take the house from the example above, with a $175,600 reverse mortgage. Typical costs would include an origination fee of $4,700, mortgage insurance of $4,700, other finance costs of $1,200 and servicing fees (deducted monthly but computed up front) of $4,500--leaving a payout of only...