Word: thinning
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...this shapes up as a good time to dust off your resume. And when you do, remember that the game has changed. The old deal was that your company paid you a decent, but not great, wage through thick and thin. You didn?t get rich; you didn?t get fired. But now even profitable companies shed long-time employees at the first whiff of trouble. ?Think like a free agent,? says John Challenger, who runs outplacement firm Challenger Grey & Christmas. ?You need to be able to dump your company before it dumps you.? When companies are hungry for talent...
...when the characters aren’t talking, the writers manage to get off a few smart references and clever spoofs. The detective in charge of the Hood case is a frog who dresses and acts like William Powell’s Nick of the classic “Thin Man” films, and The Wolf (Patrick Warburton), actually a misunderstood investigative reporter, is a carbon copy of Chevy Chase in “Fletch,” complete with hoodie, Lakers jersey, and 80’s background techno. The music sequences are also hysterically overdone, particularly...
...days that Harvard’s non-denominational church holds memorial services, Richard D. Campbell, The Memorial Church’s sexton, climbs up narrow and steep staircases, ascends a thin metal ladder, and smashes a half-ton clapper into Harvard’s two-ton bell, high up in the church tower. Down below, three dorms full of freshman students cover their ears and try to fall back asleep...
...bell is still hand-rung by Campbell, who has become an expert over the past 10 years at climbing through the church’s catwalk on narrow beams to reach steep metal staircases and cluttered platforms with large windows. On the highest platform, he climbs a thin metal ladder that finally brings him up to a door that opens onto to a small space high above the Yard...
...Stern and his colleagues will be trying to understand when New Horizons reaches Pluto and its three moons (two were found just this past fall) in 2015. As the probe zips by, cameras will snap pictures of surface features about the size of a football field, analyze Pluto's thin atmosphere and measure its temperature...