Word: throwings
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...unfair of the school to deprive healthy children of their favorite peanuty snacks. "Parents get very passionate and angry when their kids can't bring peanut butter to school," says Mike Tringale, director of external affairs at the Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America. "But you wouldn't throw razor blades all over the gymnasium. For these allergic kids, putting peanut butter in the cafeteria is the same thing...
...Throw in the fact that disappointed investors will likely migrate to those funds that did well during the recent bout of volatility and you have a shakeout scenario. Huw Van Steenis, an asset-management analyst with Morgan Stanley, told a forum of European hedge-fund managers in October that a "super-league" of funds is slowly taking control of the industry. In 2006, 67% of all assets under management were controlled by this élite group of the top 100 funds, compared with 49% in 2003. "We think there's going to be a Darwinian process, a sorting...
...death toll is rising along with the political temperature. A bomber had struck on Tuesday as well, this time a stone's throw away from Musharraf's residence in the garrison town of Rawalpindi, where a police post was attacked, leaving seven dead. And this week's casualties pushed beyond 700 the total number killed since the summer in violence related to extremism. At least two dozen attacks have directly targeted the military, prompting it to issue orders for officers to avoid wearing their uniforms in public or traveling in vehicles bearing military number plates. Though no group has claimed...
Advertisements for the Macintosh emphasize its convenience for musicians, artists, web designers, writers, and other creative, alternative types. This makes the hefty price tag doubly tragic, since these demographics are hardly the type than can afford to throw money down the Apple drain...
...been known to throw one shirt in the dryer to unwrinkle it. And honestly, at home, when do I ever turn off my computer? Admittedly, energy-saving abroad is usually more an issue of affordability than it is of environmental awareness, but in America, where environmental awareness does exist, we have a responsibility to conserve. Individuals should save energy however they can and the government must do its part on a global, legislative level...