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...revealing flash emerged as Costello, projector clicker at the ready, was explaining the Budget to sequestered reporters on May 9. Searching for a word to sum up the changes to superannuation, he thought for a few beats, then settled on "radical." It was Costello looking down the time tunnel; the exact image of the landscape and people out there in 2040 was elusive, but he seemed happy with the shape of the outcome. The moment passed and the Treasurer went back to the script. But radical was a description Costello was burdened with-or guided by-for two decades...
Hoffa once tried to sum up in four short sentences his career after he left school at the end of the seventh grade: "I got a job in a department store--stock boy. Then I got a job at Kroger's. And that's my whole life. Pretty simple life." It was a lot more complicated than that. But in one sense Hoffa's career indeed followed a simple line: straight up the ladder of labor-union power ... Hoffa's rise to power and the uses he has made of it are detailed and documented in the McClellan committee record...
...Overall Quality,” the last of which is a combination of the “Helpfulness” and “Clarity” ratings. The site also includes a “Hotness” function, whereby the sum of “hot” (+1) and “not hot” (-1) votes is displayed, unless it is a negative, in which case the site shows up a zero in order to prevent embarrassment for the not-so-pretty professors. The Central Michigan study found that the correlation between...
...exemplarily creepy exchange between Tautou and Bettany, which for a moment raises the stakes to the level of personal affront. But these signs of violent life are rare. The flashbacks to the Roman Empire and the Middle Ages (shot in desaturated color) look both expensive and perfunctory - words that sum up the film...
...second big piece of MLS's strategy has been to become the North American leader in promoting and managing the sport. "We want to be the portal for soccer in the U.S.," says Ivan Gazidis, deputy commissioner of MLS. An MLS division called Soccer United Marketing (SUM) won the rights to promote Mexico's team as well as the U.S. national team. So MLS brings Los Tri to Los Angeles, Miami and other Hispanic hot spots, while the U.S. team works the entire country. Both teams conduct doubleheaders with MLS squads. "We're doing a great job for them," says...