Word: stiffs
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...small statement. Music in Brazil is like sunlight: it's natural, it's elemental, it illuminates every building, every river bend, every aspect of life. "Dancing and music are in our blood," says William Nadir, 23, a Sao Paulo motorcycle deliveryman. "You can spot strangers by the stiff way they move their hips...
...market in the '80s, and he did it by truck. Ergen, with his future wife Candy and a poker buddy, Jim DeFranco, drove one of their two satellite dishes to Colorado, hoping his fledgling service would score big in a land of tall mountains and bad TV reception. A stiff wind blew their trailer into a ditch, ruining the dish and leaving them with only one. As it turned out, one dish was enough. Ergen used it to build EchoStar, now the nation's second largest satellite-TV company...
...consisted of Jay familiarizing himself with exactly what I could and could not do, with an emphasis on the latter. He tried to teach me how to parallel park, but I had a great deal of trouble with the backing up part. Jay told me that I was too stiff, that I was taking this driving thing too seriously. “What are you—some kind of investment banker?” he asked...
Golf remains its own biggest enemy. The game is time consuming and expensive--and still excruciatingly difficult. A single driver can cost as much as $600. In the past two years, competition has become so stiff and club improvements so minimal and costly that only the most deep-pocketed companies have been able to keep turning out cutting-edge products. Callaway and TaylorMade each spend as much as $35 million on research and development yearly. "I don't know how successful you can be without investing heavily in your own technology," says Mark King, president of TaylorMade, whose 300-series...
...unspool some additional optimism on the state of the economy in his return to the Hill after last week's semi-sanguine appearance before the House Financial Services Committee last Wednesday, he'd have known by Tuesday's opening bell that he'd have been shouting into a pretty stiff wind...