Word: sniff
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With journalists at the convention outnumbering delegates by a three-to-one ratio, I expected this to be the event of the year. I expected the hordes of press to track down leads, sniff out scandals and uncover dirt. And if all that didn’t work out, I expected to get educated on “the issues.” I expected to learn something about the real John Kerry...
...cannot remember a campaign where the candidates were so opaque about their agenda,” Gergen said. “It does seem to me that the voters ought to be able to go to the polls with more than a sniff...
Military dogs heading to Iraq are getting their own body armor. The Marine Corps trains German shepherds and Belgian Malinois for guard duty and, with added schooling, to sniff out bombs and drugs. Now they will be equipped with Kevlar vests, which protect the dogs from shoulders to rump. The 7-lb. vests (cost: $1,000 each) have pouches for cooling packs--panting alone won't do the trick in an Iraqi summer--as well as loops for ropes to help the dogs climb steep terrain and a harness for parachuting into hostile territory...
...aimed squarely at those who don't aspire, who don't want to buy anything. Except, of course, they do. Mirroring Martha's association with Sherwin-Williams, ReadyMade is working with Urban Outfitters to develop a co-branded line of paint. While the under-35 set might sniff at the consumption of the boomers, 25-to-34-year-olds wield about $176 billion in annual spending power, according to the Conference Board...
...Chief George Tenet was certain David Kay was the best bloodhound to set loose in Iraq last summer to sniff for weapons of mass destruction (WMD). Tenet reasoned that if anyone could find the stockpiles of nuclear, chemical and biological arms on which the Bush Administration had predicated its unprecedented, pre-emptive attack on Saddam Hussein's regime, it was Kay. The Texan had spent 20 years as an international weapons inspector, with several tours in Iraq. Hard-nosed and fiercely independent, Kay, 63, had a vast network of friends at the Pentagon and the CIA--and among Iraqis...