Word: slight
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...show of gentlemanliness, I offer to help the slightly uncomfortable teachers secure a lap dance for the divorce. In a slight downgrade of my gentlemanliness, I never return to the women, instead using my awesome reporter's notebook ($2.99; any drugstore) to talk to a stripper for the next two hours. "To someone from Minnesota we're sluts, but in Vegas this is a respectable job to the locals," says Sami, 33, who is known as the Fire Bitch because of her ability to light on fire a surprising number of her body parts. Sami says she's not that...
...addition, Tsurumi is still sore about what he recalls as Bush’s slight to his cinematic taste. When he arranged for students to view the film of John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath during their study of the Great Depression, Tsurumi said, Bush derided the film as “corny...
...level it will be easier to discuss." Others suggest Germany should follow the East's lead. Branislav Durajka, tax chief of the Slovak Finance Ministry, says that since the flat tax was implemented, higher receipts from consumption and value-added tax have more than made up for a slight shortfall in personal income tax. "We could give some advice to [Germany and France]," he says. "The lowering of tax to around 20% doesn't lead to a decline in budget revenue - on the contrary." It certainly caught Austria's attention. In 2005, its corporate-tax rate will drop from...
...can’t just throw money in from somewhere else, so a change in the law would entail sacrifice at some level,” she said. “There might be a slight increase in the self-help level of low-income students...
...because of my respect—and slight envy—for those who do possess that capacity that I felt a little embarrassed of my own, less ambitious plans for June, July and August. I sometimes wished that I had taken the time in November to fill out that application, or over spring break to make that interview, so that I could join my friends in being able to say, “Yes, I have a job this summer.” And not just any job, but a real job, a 9-to-5, work...