Word: twistings
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...crafted another plan. The first assumption of what the program will do, and among the most important of its goals, is only mentioned in passing. "This package is the first crucial step in a concerted effort to create and save 3 to 4 million jobs." This is a little twist on what is being said in public...
...episode premiere (Jan. 21, 9 p.m. E.T.), the survivors try to determine where (and perhaps when) the island has gone. The debut adds a mind-bending twist to the show's time-jumping narrative that I won't spoil, while keeping its head of steam from Season 4. Lost has a pulp streak--the premiere doesn't just use but also conspicuously repeats the line "God help us all!"--yet it's leavened by humor and performances that ground the bizarre events in a plausible humanity. (Especially Jorge Garcia as sweet, afflicted Hurley, the world's unluckiest lottery winner...
...Rita King, who studies online communities as a senior fellow at the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs, says the heightened level of hostility since Israel began its military operation is troubling. "Learning how to navigate this potentially dangerous new twist in human interaction is complicated, particularly with regard to issues of security," King says. According to Lea Bishop Shaver, a lecturer at Yale Law School, threatening to kill someone through an online forum "can land you in jail for assault, even if you never touch the person." But she added that making empty threats over the Internet rarely...
...offer simplicity. That's on display in one of the site's more innovative features, "Translating Uncle Sam," in which MNN's bloggers take raw data from government websites - whose comprehensiveness is eclipsed only by their impenetrability - and put it into user-friendly terms. Given the way people twist data, knotting them like Atlanta traffic, in environmental debates - especially those about global warming - this is a genuinely valuable service. Notes Babbit: "We'll have better graphs...
Bernstein: We have several themes. The infrastructure theme is one of them but we put a little twist on that because we don't think people have really thought about it all the way through. A lot of infrastructure-related companies are going to see pretty substantial declines in their revenues and earnings because they've been so exposed to the energy sector, and energy-related capital spending is being cut back pretty dramatically here. So our analysts are focusing on those companies that are more related to water projects and highway projects and have minimal exposure to the energy...