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...Captain] Scot Hopps is a guy who works as hard in February as he does in April. He’s out there hitting off the tee, and stuff like that. He swung the stick real well, and got more at-bats each year...
Along the way, Dirt suffers through numerous mishaps, mostly situations set up solely for the purposed of forcing an easy laugh; he is caught in a molar-shaped hot air balloon, seduced by a trailer trash temptress played by Jaime Pressly (Tomcats, Jerry Springer: Ringmaster) at a carnival, swung like a doll in the jaws of an enormous crocodile and finds himself on the losing end of multiple encounters with human excrement...
...head the new board of directors are real losers. They're widely described as having a questionable past, and the speaker of the lower house of the Duma even referred to them as "sort of swindlers." To make matters worse, the Communist Party, which hates NTV, has now swung round to support it against the takeover, because one of the men Putin has put in charge is an American, Boris Jordan. It's like he was trying to see how many toes he could tread on simultaneously. The Kremlin has alienated a number of different constituencies in one, not very...
...number of incidents spirals, regulatory bodies and airline crews' unions have swung into action, seeking consensus on how to deal with the issue. Definitions of air rage vary from country to country - which leads to discrepancies in how cases are reported - and complex laws can make it hard for airlines and police to prosecute offenders. Not that airlines are necessarily abreast of the problem: in a recent survey by London Guildhall University, more than a third of the 200 or so airlines questioned said staff were not trained to deal with air rage. The International Transport Workers' Federation, which represents...
...course, all this caution has given rise to concern that, after the hype of the Internet's infancy in Europe, the pendulum has swung too far the other way. "Venture capital should be a risk-long business," says Nick Greenspan, a partner at Bain & Company and co-founder of bainlab. "Instead, it's become extremely risk-averse." Jerome Mol, founder and ceo of GorillaPark, says investors are judging European companies by American standards even though the U.S. market is larger and more advanced...