Word: sniff
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...Corp. not as a trust but as a vehicle to get richer and more powerful. From one newspaper in a provincial Australian city, he has built a global empire that now encompasses 20th Century Fox, MySpace and the Times of London. The man has shown a remarkable ability to sniff opportunity where others don't. But he is 76, he won't be around forever, and it's hard to say what News Corp. will be in the absence of his controversial genius. Quite possibly, it will be yet another family media business that stops being a family business...
...most democracies, Arnoldo Alem?n wouldn't seem like a viable presidential candidate. In fact, the former president of Nicaragua might not even pass the basic sniff test...
...according to Nisbett, sees things differently: the world isn't a length of rope but a vast, closed chain, incomprehensibly complex and ever changing. When you look at life from this second perspective, some unlikely connections reveal themselves. You're forced to retreat from the den of libertarianism and sniff the wind, to wake up when someone in Khartoum or Mogadishu twitches in his sleep...
Being called a fag hag—even when it is primarily by my gay friends—seems to imply that when searching for the next victim of my friendship, I sniff out gays. Yet I’m not an insect drawn to the homosexual flame. Women with gay friends often get lumped together as some strange breed, but the phenomenon is actually quite simple. Just like meeting politicos though a roommate in the College Democrats, having one friend in the Harvard Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian, Transgender, and Supporters Alliance (BGLTSA) will get you in with...
...until recently served as chairman of Sears World Trade Inc., stresses that in his new job he will report directly to the President. But he pointedly noted that he would "certainly envisage keeping the President's chief of staff informed." He immediately sent in a ten-member team to sniff out structural and personnel problems at the NSC. "I want to rebuild the NSC policy-formulation machinery," he said in an interview. Covert operations like the one in Iran, he notes, "are at times desirable," but "all the procedures need to be followed." Unlike his predecessors, however, he does...