Word: stingingly
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...victim of its own success. Thirty years ago, most children got five shots in the first two years of life; today the number is 20, with as many as five in a single visit. Ouch! The first ever five-in-one combination vaccine will take a bit of the sting out of this rite of passage. Infants can now be protected against hepatitis B and polio, along with diphtheria, tetanus and pertussis (whooping cough), with a single injection given at 2, 4 and 6 months, eliminating half a dozen shots in the process...
...confidence, in part because the esteemed author appears to sanction the party's Hindu-nationalistic agenda. So it must have stung last week when Naipaul expressed "profound disappointment" with the government's crackdown on news website Tehelka. The muckraking site made a splash nearly two years ago with a sting operation that exposed Defense Ministry officials accepting bribes. After promising to investigate the matter, a government commission has done little since but investigate Tehelka and freeze the assets of its financier, nearly squeezing the business out of existence. Meanwhile, the bureaucrats caught on videotape kept their jobs. "Having begun...
...1960s and '70s; after a battle with Parkinson's disease; in New York City. A stickler for quality who made just 14 movies in a three-decade career, he popularized the duo of Robert Redford and Paul Newman in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) and The Sting (1973) and made acclaimed film versions of Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five and John Irving's The World According to Garp...
...sweatshop. He brought in a state trooper to run it undercover, then hired 30 laborers who had no idea it was a front. The shop set up on Chrystie Street in the city's garment district, turning out shirts, pants and sweaters. But the sting took longer than anyone had anticipated. "Every two weeks Eliot would come in asking for more money," says Michael Cherkasky, who headed the investigation division (and is now president of risk-consulting firm Kroll Inc.). "We were actually stuck running a business--and losing money. I said, 'Eliot, you're becoming a shmatte salesman...
Harvard will attempt to erase the sting of defeat with a successful showing in the Showdown...