Word: spined
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...spine-tingling voice of Mairéad Ní Mhaonaig allowed the audience to be carried off to serene places and showcased her amazing ability to capture the beauty of a place with mere words. Many of the songs are inspired by rural Ireland and its charms...
...bogus earnings reports and balance sheets at companies from Rite Aid to Xerox. In some cases, auditors dealt with corporate brass intent on concealing thievery; WorldCom's ex-CFO, Scott Sullivan, recently pleaded guilty to fraud and conspiracy charges, for instance. In other cases, auditors simply lacked spine: again and again, they failed to police the books aggressively for fear of losing the client, along with consulting gigs that brought in higher profits than standard audit work...
...Then that’d throw off the spine and everything,” Brunnig says. “So he got me throwing left handed...
...nerve. His prosecution of the war sent a message even to those who disagree with him that he will do whatever he thinks it takes to keep the country safe. All his attention on Kerry's shifting votes is less substance than subtext: Where's the guy's spine? When Bush uses "Steady leadership in times of change" as the tag line on his new ads, it suggests that a President who likes to talk about results would now rather focus on reflexes, maybe because when it comes to finding Saddam's weapons and pacifying Iraq, the results...
...stacks echo the architecture. I love that this vision was not entirely practical. Officeholders mosaic their sterile doors with photographs in an effort to humanize them. Librarians look cowed by the empty space surrounding them. For the Scandinavian Modern chairs’ part, there is a bruise on my spine from a collision with one of them; I wear it like a badge of honor...