Word: switchings
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...Here are just a dozen favorites that I couldn't fit in elsewhere: "Watch me run a 50-yard dash with my legs cut off." ... "You're dead, son, get yourself buried." ... "I often wish I were deaf and wore a hearing aid - with a simple flick of the switch I could shut out the greedy murmur of little men." ... "I love this dirty town." ... "My right hand hasn't seen my left hand in 30 years." ... "Cat's in the bag and the bag's in the river." ... "He's got the morals of a guinea...
...this technology and targeting has made sleight of hand even more prevalent in movie advertising. Several marketing executives who didn't want their names used told TIME that bait-and-switch trailer tactics are as integral a part of the movie business as Oscar parties and backstabbing. Trailers often have music that is not in the movie, and older actors are banished from spots destined for MTV. Studios will use several production houses to make different trailers for different audiences by emphasizing only a part of the movie. "They'll tell one company to sell it as a romantic comedy...
...Simpson, native Shetlanders. When people on the isles discuss someone's origins, they say, "He's Shetland," conveying the sense that being from the place means one is the place. Shetlanders have their own dialect, a musical tongue that rises and swells with lots of rolled Rs, which they switch off with ease to accommodate incomers. But even when speaking in their most neutral English, they weave in words such as peerie (little), bonny (pretty) and muckle (large). And you had better know the expression Ya kin (you know), because people often tack "Ya kin what I mean...
...current market is not free. Producers in poor countries do not benefit from the same government subsidies that American farmers do and are restricted from: emigrating to richer countries such as the U.S. While producers who can’t profit in one sector should be able to switch to another, coffee farmers are generally too poor to do so. (If they do switch, coca, a source of cocaine, is one of the most profitable crops to grow.) The market is already filled with numerous restrictions; most of these simply do not benefit small farmers in poor countries. Another argument...
...music industry consolidations of 1999, the label folded, transferring some artists to Sony’s Epic label and dropping the others. Whereas the demise of the Work Group might once have brought disappointment, it ironically put Lord at ease. A clause in her contract held such a label switch was tantamount to a breach of contract, and thus Lord was able to part from her deal with financial security. A recovering alcoholic with a infant, Lord opted to take a break from the studio and the road—and she could afford...