Word: slews
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...Caveny's script. Penelope has been so scarred by the superficial way she's been judged that, when she goes into a local pub, she wears a kerchief across the middle of her face, forcing her to drink a glass of beer with a straw. Caveny also has a slew of sow jokes to subject us to. "Bad nose job," notes Reese Witherspoon, who shows up at the bar (and was one of the film's producers). And when Penelope gorges on Ho-Hos, her mother asks, "Oh, now you're just going to make a pig of yourself?" Penelope...
...around for thousands of years in one form or another. For many of these years—specifically that era in which The Beatles were bigger than God—guitar-playing was in, and it was producing memorable songs. Nowadays we have canned bands like Nickelback and a slew of others who can’t even write their own music. Meanwhile, actual guitar gods are on the decline. In January of this year, Activision, Inc. announced that the “Guitar Hero” franchise had earned over a billion dollars in revenue in just 26 months...
...couple of years spent beefing up its lighting division is causing Philips no such pain. With revenues touching $9 billion in 2007, the company leads the global market--illuminating offices and airports, streets and sports arenas. And with a slew of acquisitions in advanced light-emitting diode (LED) know-how, Philips is "'light' years ahead" of the competition, says JPMorgan analyst Andreas Willi...
...Summers, for his part, readily gave his stamp of approval to a slew of projects, “explicitly supporting” HMI’s expansion, according to Crone...
During his first month at Fort Knox, an MRI of Cassidy's brain revealed no "hemorrhage, edema, mass effect or midline shift" that would clearly indicate TBI. Nonetheless, his case manager made a note in his file that "headaches are gradually worsening." Cassidy tried a slew of prescription pain relievers without success. Because there was no physical evidence of an injury, a civilian neurologist working for the Army who examined Cassidy in late April concluded that the headaches were most likely "posttraumatic migraines." The doctor prescribed two more kinds of drugs. It was the soldier's lone visit...