Word: shoeing
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...series romanticizes its subject. For the most part, News's professionals, like The West Wing's, are "flawed" merely by being virtuous workaholics who sometimes make pragmatic choices. They spend most of their screen time chasing major stories, not celebrity arrests and missing-persons sagas. And by focusing on shoe-leather journalists, the six episodes sent to critics ignore the real mainstays of today's cable news: the daily aneurysms of O'Reilly, Chris Matthews, James Carville and the rest of the yak pack. If the show manages to come back for a second season, the producers could better capture...
...round, but cash itself isn't moving as it used to. A fall in privatizations and cross-border mergers has led to a 56% plunge in foreign direct investment in the world's richest nations, says an O.E.C.D. report. BOTTOM LINES "The fear is this market has more shoes than Imelda Marcos." Charles Reinhard, Lehman Brothers strategist, asked when the stock market's next shoe will drop...
FRANCE On June 12 antiterrorist police arrested five men from Pakistan and North Africa they believe may have had contact with or provided logistical support for alleged "shoe bomber" Richard Reid in his attempt to blow up a Paris-to-Miami flight last December...
...their Cup success. But Nakata is the team's reigning International Man of Mystery. He carries himself as coolly as a Milan runway model and betrays barely an emotion, even after scoring a goal as he did against Tunisia on Friday when his header deflected off the goalkeeper's shoe and trickled into the net. His outward calm hides an inner fire. "I desperately wanted to score a goal," says Nakata. "We have a mission to show the rest of the world how good Japanese soccer really...
...officials were pointing out that Padilla had no radioactive material or any other bomb-making equipment. Nor had he chosen a target, or formulated a plan. And while his connections with al-Qaeda operatives were never in doubt, he suddenly began to look a lot more like the accused shoe-bomber Richard Reid (i.e. another disaffected ex-con from the West desperate to get in with al-Qaeda) than like the sophisticated professionals who put together September...