Word: sheepishness
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...your freedom, the cards might in fact alleviate a different kind of constitutional problem, ethnic profiling. Had the four Arabic-looking men who were hustled off of commercial jet a couple of weeks ago produced their spanking new national ID card, the airline might have felt a little more sheepish about booting them...
...contribute to your 401(k) plan. Indeed, kick up contributions if you can. Consider rebalancing too, because with the long slide in stocks you may find that bonds make up a larger part of your asset mix than you like. If so, sell some bonds and buy stocks. Feeling sheepish? Stock index funds that track the S&P 500 or Wilshire 5000 almost always do well over 10-year periods...
...three Tiger beers inside. Why, I wonder, are 36 beers listed on the automated scanning device, which is designed to beam their grocery inventory to a local store? The Tangs - living guinea pigs in a prototype Internet home sponsored and heavily promoted by the Singaporean government - offer a sheepish explanation. Shortly before I arrived at their model apartment, they ran a bunch of grocery items through the scanner to make it look like they use it all the time. Eager to accommodate, they did so at the urging of the pair of government minders who watch us from the next...
...what I saw changed me - and my bookshelf - forever. There were septuagenarians, teenagers and thirty-somethings. Women who looked like they'd just ducked out of a board meeting for an hour, and sweatshirt-clad women with babies strapped to their chests. There were women who'd brought sheepish-looking boyfriends and women who'd arrived with their mothers. It was, I decided, a pretty impressive display of sisterhood. And everybody there was waiting, unashamed, to meet and applaud Bridget Jones's creator...
...Bandits Clearing House. It works like this: "I order two monitors, they get sent to an address in Tacoma, Washington, that the guy I met in the chat room has access to, and then he forwards me one monitor and keeps the other for himself," says Eyestrain, with a sheepish smile on his face. The address isn't attached to the accomplice and each credit card is only used once. Almost all of his hardware has been illicitly gained, and now Eyestrain is using some of it to commit even more cybercrime, burning pirated CDs that he sells...