Word: washings
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...complex formula that determines who makes the roster. The results of this event counted for 40 percent of a total calculation in which year-end national ranking accounts for 40 percent and one’s performance at the S.L. Green National championship—held in Seattle, Wash., earlier this year—counts for the other 20 percent...
...line of anti-cellulite clothing by Miss Sixty includes jeans, pants and skirts that contain supposedly skin-firming microcapsules. The manufacturer claims the clothes, even after 40 washes, retain 40% of their cellulite-fighting effectiveness. The $139 pants sold out quickly after their February debut and are on their second run. The label concedes that the jeans are not guaranteed, but they at least look slimming. The downside: you should probably hand wash these items, which is a hassle...
...suggest its glory days are over. Its chairman, Bill Gates, even reclaimed his title as the world's richest man, after a widely published story claiming that the founder of Ikea had replaced him turned out to be so many Swedish meatballs. And Gates' baby, based in Redmond, Wash., is still by far the largest software maker in the world, with a healthy $56 billion in the bank and revenue conservatively expected to rise 5% next year, to about $38 billion. It has buried the hatchet with Sun Microsystems and AOL with billions of dollars in legal settlements. What could...
...Microsoft began its 30th year last month, investors wondered whether it's a little long in the tooth. "It's clear that Microsoft doesn't see itself as a high-growth company anymore," says Matt Rosoff, a financial analyst with Directions on Microsoft, based in Kirkland, Wash. "The boom days are over." Last year Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer started giving employees stock grants instead of stock options--a sure sign that the share price is flatlining. Ballmer okayed a minuscule dividend for shareholders, but he has resisted calls to let them dip any further into the $56 billion cookie...
What am I missing? I thought Jesus was sent by God to live and die as a man, to suffer and bear our sins. His Resurrection is a sign of God's forgiveness and everlasting life for all who believe in him. LIZ WINSTANLEY Issaquah, Wash...