Word: thumbings
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...Such large-cap global technology players are special cases, however; the European economy overall isn't so dependent on doing business abroad. Economists have a rule of thumb that a one-percentage-point decline in U.S. growth would take something between .2 to .4 points off Europe's growth...
...makes a pistol out of his thumb and forefinger, cocks his wrist and aims at an imaginary target across the room. "Locked and loaded," he says, looking over with a wide, confident, closed-mouth grin. It's 11:35 p.m., and he's ready for sport. This is a night for kau lui - a woman-hunting night...
...like me, and all you really want is grippingly well-made TV on demand, no recorder loves you back like TiVo. Now if you'll excuse me, I've got to make up for my unexplained absence with some serious thumb action...
...Japan they are speaking in thumbs. Everywhere you look--in restaurants and in movie theaters, on crowded trains and in taxicabs, in baseball stadiums and in university lecture halls--the New Man and New Woman of Japan walk and sit with head down, arm extended and one thumb feverishly tapping buttons on a new kind of cell phone, one that lets you surf the Web using a technology called i-mode...
...that a clone would not be a photocopy of him but talks about the traits the boy might possess: "He will like the color blue, Middle Eastern food and romantic Spanish music that's out of fashion." And then he hints at the heart of his motive. "I can thumb my nose at Mr. Death and say, 'You might get me, but you're not going to get all of me,'" he says. "The special formula that is me will live on into another lifetime. It's a partial triumph over death. I would leave my imprint not in sand...