Word: tap
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...that amount by your tax bracket (say, 28%), and add that amount as a reserve. Even if you never spend a dime of the reserve, the tax savings on your contributions ensure you'll be no worse off than if you hadn't enrolled. And odds are you'll tap the reserve - even if you don't wear glasses...
...football games has long been a collegiate tradition, one that can immensely improve the spectators’ experience. Alcohol has become so closely associated with the enjoyment of the game that a ban on kegs will not discourage undergraduates from drinking. Rather, if students cannot find refreshment at the tap, many will turn to hard liquor—a far more dangerous alternative. Handles of vodka and rum, disguised in conspicuous water bottles, will replace cups of beer among the binge drinkers, and University Health Services will see more sick students than ever. Hard liquor contains a much higher percentage...
...just cut-outs or pawns in the plot; rather they are composites of real people that we meet everyday. It is clear that throughout his life Anderson has been an astute observer of human behavior. Consequently, one of the most special things about his films is how they tap into our basic desires, fears and needs and explore how we are all more connected than we think...
Though the report doesn't tap terror groups by name, the implication is clear: if you don't practice good PC hygiene now, al-Qaeda or some organization like it could one day hijack your hard drive. That's not just homeland-security hype. In 2001, viruses and other malicious code caused $12 billion worth of damage to the U.S. economy with the aid of unsuspecting users. How to stop that from happening? Most of the suggestions in the cybersecurity report are pretty familiar: don't open strange email attachments; do install a firewall; choose passwords that aren't easy...
...find her parents have turned into swine. (We later learn they were bewitched because "they ate like pigs"; at this theme park, you are how you eat.) The frightened Chihiro realizes she is a prisoner in a sort of ghost spa--a Bathhouse on Haunted Hill--where she must tap unused reserves of courage and ingenuity to escape. She will discover that growing up means more than saying...