Word: tacks
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Just because a city native is less likely to tack on meaningless pleasantries to his or her comments doesn't mean that he or she is being mean. Underneath that gruff, hurried exterior New Yorkers are human beings too, with the same compassion and caring that mid-Westerners have. But strangers will not get a "hello, how are you?" from us--why should they? Do we know? Do we honestly care how they're feeling? No, of course not and such superficial behavior is beneath New Yorkers...
MARRIAGE ANNULLED. Between former model JERRY HALL and senescent rocker MICK JAGGER. Jagger's legal tack--that their Hindu wedding on Bali nine years ago was not binding--didn't prevent his ceding to Hall a sum London tabloids put at $15.5 million. The couple, who have four children, reached a settlement the day their divorce trial was to start...
Tour operators have taken a different tack. An increasingly contentious wave of mergers and takeovers since 1997 has left 80% of the British package-holiday business in the hands of just four companies. Hotels started an era of frenetic consolidation slightly earlier. In 1997-98 more than $25 billion worth of property changed hands, including the purchase of Inter-Continental by Bass Hotels & Resorts and Marriott's buyout of Renaissance...
...leaders, critical of what they say is President Clinton?s neglect of the armed forces, plan to use the President?s $6 billion emergency request for Kosovo to fight their own war over the defense budget. Their emerging strategy: Use the President?s requisition for the NATO action to tack on supplemental funding, perhaps $10 billion or more, to bolster the nation?s defenses. The move has the advantage of both backing the troops in Kosovo while also maintaining the GOP?s distance from Clinton?s general military policy...
...Harvard would tack on two more in the eighth, getting back-to-back RBI hits from Huling and senior designated hitter Peter Woodfork to open the lead to 8-4 and stick Reddy (2-5) with an ugly line--seven earned runs on eight hits over 5.1 innings...