Word: tailoring
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...group, which sponsors speakers and conferences, will apply to the Trust to make up these funds too. Yet Chao worries that WISHR might need to tailor its programming to fit the goals of the grant committee...
Panama has always been a place where strange truth gives fiction a run for its money. In John le Carre's 1996 novel The Tailor of Panama, a Cockney living in Panama City tricks money out of British intelligence by stitching up a plot involving Asians' taking over the Panama Canal. In real-life Panama, the story is no less peculiar: a new President is about to be sworn in amid charges that the government has switched control of the canal to a company allegedly controlled by the Chinese People's Liberation Army. The catfight over that is just...
...strike ?- more of a balk. "A strike is a union-sponsored withholding of services," umpires? union head Richie Phillips told the New York Times. "This, in fact, is a resignation of their position and their signing with another corporation to provide services." That "other corporation" was of course tailor-made a few weeks ago for just this eventuality. It?s called Umpires...
...thinness of the market--most of the past year's gains can be traced to relatively few stocks--has been tailor-made for the e-trade crowd, who pile into favored stocks at light-speed. It's been a hot-money, risky environment, and these investors have apparently lost respect for the traditional, research-oriented investing that the pros have to offer...
...they still can't lose weight, he would add orlistat to the mix. Another possibility, suggests Duke's Hamilton, is to use orlistat with an appetite suppressant. The value of this new drug, says Heymsfield, is that it adds to the available anti-obesity therapies and lets doctors tailor the treatment to a patient's needs. "I don't see Xenical as something to displace one or another of the currently available drugs," he says. "It's not a magic bullet. But having one more bullet, so to speak, is very helpful...