Word: swallow
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fooling at least its piscine predators. According to researchers at Lund University in Sweden, when pike are placed in carp-filled ponds, the hunted fish begin to bulk up on food in the water until, after 12 weeks, they are simply too big for the pike to swallow. But the bigger carp expend more energy swimming. Once the pike threat is gone, the carp should revert back to their slimmer shape. Call them the Arnold Schwarzeneggers of the deep -- at least for a while...
...strategy that some of his advisers are pushing: tie the short-term stimulus plan securely to a package that also contains medium-term deficit- reduction measures. A pork-happy Congress will readily pass the former, so it must be made to swallow the latter at the same time. That would have the added advantage of reassuring credit markets, justifiably jittery about the prospects of an even higher deficit, and thus prevent long-term interest rates from spurting even higher...
...center of Creditors for the first two-thirds of the play. But Harlan delivers Pat's emotional lines with an incredible lack of feeling. "Your words are cutting me like knives," he deadpans to Taimi. And those are just the lines that are comprehensible, since Harlan tends to swallow syllables and sometimes whole words. He also spends too much time nervously fondling both his wife--he speaks a good number of lines directly into her stomach--and his champagne glass--one of the few props in the spartan...
...helps support her family, knows the stronger partner is always the one who loves less. The man (Tony Leung, a wonderful Hong Kong actor) is singed, happily, by the flame of his ardor. His naked vulnerability is just one of the gifts he is eager to bestow. She can swallow his pride, his ego, his love and longing. He , is hers to do with as she will, now and forever...
...Einhorn, if it took all this to get you here, I kiss the calendar for today. Grief puts erasers in my ears. My world is kept a beautiful place. Artie...I feel a song coming on." Salie is a riveting Bananas; her face visibly pained when forced to swallow pills, her voice full of fear when she describes shock treatments...