Word: tweaking
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...recently. "I don't mean the contents of his jokes--but I do him, I lean on him." He means Hope's comic character--especially, in Allen's early films, his sexual ineptitude and the endless spray of one-liners. What Hope uniquely had was brashness, the ability to tweak the mighty (and their supporting ninnies) and skip away unscathed...
...Israeli army outpost in the Gaza Strip in which four Israeli soldiers died. This week Sharon's chief of staff, Dov Weissglass, is scheduled to visit Washington to discuss the understanding on assassinations with National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice. "What we thought we had worked out, we need to tweak a little," says the White House official...
...last week. The White House and the Republican congressional leaders were desperate to squeeze the Bush tax cut into the $350 billion limit set by the Senate. There were plenty of ways to do this; all sorts of accounting flummeries had already been perpetrated, but a final tweak was needed. So the Republicans decided that the working poor, who pay little or no income taxes--families with incomes from $10,500 to $26,625--should not receive the expanded child tax credit. Almost 12 million children were effectively denied stipends of up to $400. This saved an estimated $3.5 billion...
...Tweak a few details, and the scene painted on The New York Times Op-Ed page last month could have been a cut from the movie about the Progressive Student Labor Movement’s (PSLM) occupation of Mass. Hall two years ago. “Students confronted picket lines, hunted for meals off campus, picked their way past uncollected trash and wondered when graduate-student teachers would return to class,” the piece read, describing a strike at a prestigious Ivy League university...
...like Calvin Klein, Guess, Esprit and Mustang, and the rest for Mavi. State-of-the-art production facilities at Cerkezkoy gave Mavi the edge they needed. Unlike other global brands which outsource to many different manufacturers, controlling its own flexible, high-tech production plant means Mavi can afford to tweak each pair of jeans to accommodate different tastes in different countries. Turks are shorter than North Americans, Canadians prefer slimmer cuts, and Germans are fastidiously fashion-conscious. "We don't try to push the same product to different markets," says Ersin Akarlilar, Sait's U.S.-educated son who runs American...