Word: teaser
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...more sex-obsessed these days. All of pop culture is. Americans listen to Howard Stern, giggle over Janet Jackson, collect unrated DVD editions of the "American Pie" trilogy, gossip about celebrities' dirty secrets. We ogle (and then condemn) the dropping of a bathrobe on a Monday Night Football teaser; leaf through Jenna Jameson's best-seller "How to Make Love Like a Porn Star"; log onto the Internet and bathe in all that lovely cyberswill. Not to mention a multibillion-dollar porn industry that produces some 10,000 films a year, far more than the annual number of non-porn...
...make an average of $8,500 a year for a family of three, was developing a whole new set of values, centered on individualism. Nike unabashedly made American culture its selling point, with ads that challenge China's traditional, group-oriented ethos. This year the company released Internet teaser clips showing a faceless but Asian-looking high school basketball player shaking-and-baking his way through a defense. It was timed to coincide with Nike tournaments around the country and concluded with the question, "Is this you?" The viral advertisement drew 5 million e-mails. Nike then aired TV spots...
...these cards average 1 percentage point higher than for nonaffiliated cards, according to Bankrate.com "The interest charges can easily outweigh the benefit," says Greg McBride, an analyst at Bankrate.com If you carry a balance, your first priority should be finding the lowest possible ongoing interest rate (not the teaser rate). If you don't carry a balance, make sure the card has a grace period of at least 25 days, or else you might incur charges anyway...
...makes a dashing Harold Hill), and at a regional theatre on Long Island. And what was the number one theatrical experience of the summer? Well, I’ll be writing a column on that in the fall, so this paragraph was basically a teaser...
...BRAIN TEASER What sordid scandal that took place in Seattle became part of a test question for high school students across Washington? The question on a new standardized test did not concern state history but rather logic. Students were challenged to map the correct route between fictitious towns. Clever 10th-graders who marked the right answer (C) traveled from Mayri, went through Clay and Lee and ended up in Turno. Eureka! Mary K. Letourneau, the elementary school teacher who seduced her 13-year-old former student and later had two children by him, one while she was serving time...