Word: sags
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...They sag in a little and our points were open," Oberting said. "We're pretty dangerous in the corners, and once they sneak in we start using our points and there is traffic in front...
...found his literary inspiration in France. He became a "pathological Francophile" the day in 1965 when he lay on his back after a picnic in the town square of Grignan and "felt the blood in the earth" of Provence. Paris, where he lived for eight years before moving to Sag Harbor, N.Y., in 1993, remains for him the center of Western civilization, the "consolation for life's difficulties," and his books always go back there. At the same time, he regards France as a land residually authoritarian, where citizens are expected to fill out mysterious forms and the fear...
...Then there were the discounts - offering some of its biggest customers deep discounts to make purchases they might otherwise have postponed until a later quarter. This would help Lucent boost its revenue numbers in the quarter when they needed a boost; problem was, Lucent's business continue to sag, at which the discounts came back to haunt them...
Lately denials have been flying all over Hollywood. Warner Bros. Pictures denied that (contrary to a New York Post item) Marilyn Manson had been cast in the upcoming kiddie flick "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory." The two actors' unions, SAG and AFTRA, denied that they are at war with each other. Warren Beatty's publicist denied that Beatty was responsible for the delayed production and runaway budget of "Town and Country," a much-troubled movie coming soon with Beatty, Diane Keaton and Goldie Hawn...
...shelter in San Jose, Calif., on a school night. Walk past the guard at the reception desk, down past the rows of slightly musty bunk beds, past the red-eyed guys slumped in front of a tiny TV screen filled with colored snow. Just as your heart starts to sag with despair for the human condition, though, stop and take a peek through the locked door on the right. The contrast couldn't be starker. You see a brilliant white computer lab with state-of-the-art PCs and a massive Ethernet hookup; rows of servers with blinking green lights...