Word: tweaks
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...into a cash cow. It is not a new complaint. In the 1970s, when President Jimmy Carter sold the handover treaty to Congress, there was much whining about turning the canal into little more than an expensive toll road. The latest version of this anxiety adds a national security tweak: fear of China. In 1997, the Panamanian government finalized a rich deal with Hutchison Whampoa Ltd., based in Hong Kong, to run two ports near the entrances to the canal. American-owned Bechtel lost out to Hutchison under a less than transparent bidding process...
...going to do it only once. "A quarter-point hike, which is really nominal, has already been factored in anyway," says Baumohl. "All this talk about preemption means there won?t be a series of hikes. Greenspan is still ahead of the curve." The idea of a preventative tweak ?- and this chairman?s impeccable record says it?s worth a ton of cure ?- had the inflation-fearing bond markets jumping for joy and yields dropping like a stone. Wall Street isn?t going to grouse about the host watering down the monetary punch just a little...
...plight of the Russians doesn't tweak your heart strings, how about the Albanian Kosovans. The Serb's have renewed their project of ethnic cleansing in that region, ejecting the chief U.S. peace-verifier, massacring at least one village and commencing the artillery bombardment of others...
...Mainly Jazz Dance Company, whose dance style is broadly-detined, might have had a harder time surprising the audience. From the first piece onward, though, the troupe managed to tweak the conventions of jazz and modern dance in a way that was consistently imaginative...
...exploration of personal interests, as well as a taste of higher education and professional avenues. Many disgruntled and jaded senior concentrators view the thesis as the bane of their social existence, not to mention an unpalatable chore, as they realize that toiletry practices of Minorcan societies no longer tweak their interest. Over the past few years, seniors have covered the typical range of topics, including the socioeconomic histories of every imaginable country, province, and anthill. Then there are the 100-page analyses, dissecting each feasible theme in Edith Wharton novels, and the usual incomprehensible, highly obscure science papers. For instance...