Word: sleeked
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...airline flight these days. But the penny-pinching spirit had yet to arrive in 2002 at the Transportation Security Administration, the federal agency in charge of air security. A draft of an upcoming Inspector General's report from the Department of Homeland Security charges that the agency's sleek Transportation Systems Operation Center, which opened in the Washington suburbs in 2003, was plagued by mismanagement and overspending. The report charges that some of the $500,000 listed under "equipment and tools" was spent on silk plants and decorative artwork. And in addition to outfitting the building's four kitchenettes with...
Through selective news broadcasts, the American public is shown only a sleek, “lean machine” image of a war that is organized into victories and losses. In contrast, the Gunners live in a world of anticipation and insecurity, and it is this disjunction Palace aims to explore. Against inserted radio clips of Donald Rumsfeld’s pronouncements of progress in Iraq, the sequences of the soldiers’ assignments reveal that their duties and equipment remain unchanged. Days are spent patrolling the streets of Baghdad in scrap-metal-sided Humvees (armor deftly satirized...
RAISING THEIR BABY Zuckerberg’s most prized possession is parked below the Los Altos house. It’s a sleek black Infiniti FX35, fresh off the lot, the only car in the garage. The best part: he received it as a gift...
WHAT'S NOT You'll get a workout lugging it around: the unit weighs 13 1/2 lbs. You'll also need a separate tuner, the Delphi Roady (good for the car too), which adds $120 to the cost and detracts from a sleek design...
...studying to be a monk who has been taught Muay Thai martial arts and goes to Bangkok to retrieve a missing Buddha head, Jaa battles a series of Asian and Caucasian bruisers with fists, feet, elbows, head--he uses them all in his full-body barrage--with a sleek intensity and jaw-swiveling impact unique in movie martial arts. He also knows how to take a fall. In one match, he gets on the wrong end of a killer kick and executes a triple twist before hitting the canvas, as if Greg Louganis were doing a gold-medal dive from...