Word: statics
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Aforementioned Marta (who by the way, is only 21 years of age), scoring one of the best goals ever in a World Cup, men’s or women’s, popped the ball and flicked it behind American defender (doing her best impression of static molasses) Tina Ellertson, then beat her to the ball, dummied another defender, and coolly struck it into the net for the final Brazilian goal...
...Back at home, ironically, the problem is too many dealerships. So the company is continuing to close some while increasing the number of its foreign outlets. The automaker has around 5,250 dealers, about a quarter of them overseas. Manley says the total number of dealerships will remain static, but the share of foreign showrooms will grow...
...there is nothing static about family reaction. Parents are often caught off-guard by the arrival of the new technology in their children's school. Last fall, Jim Karlsberger's eight-year-old son returned from school with a newsletter briefly reporting that lunchroom finger scanning was set to begin. "I thought it was Orwellian," says Karlsberger, a 43-year-old hotel manager in Williams, Ariz. "I find it hard to believe that someone, someday, won't find a way to compromise the information on my child's fingerprint." He rallied dozens of parents and the American Civil Liberties union...
...federal government expanded funding between 1998 and 2003 but in the past four years, funding has been static, the University’s senior director of federal and state relations, Kevin Casey, told the Crimson in an interview last spring...
...implication that I don't trust everyone to act in the program's best interests,” he wrote. “I just want all of us in Expos to be able to get on with the interesting projects and jobs we want to do without the static or rumors that could hamper our work...