Word: weaponeer
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...this is America, where one person's taboo is another's business opportunity. Hence the arrival of the newest weapon in the corporate team-building arsenal: bouncy castles. Pump It Up (PIU), the nation's biggest chain of indoor inflatable playgrounds--those facilities with enormous, brightly colored balloon-like structures that usually house frenetic children--is now offering business-education programs. (Read "Competence: Is Your Boss Faking...
...escape her own far-reaching criticisms, “The Fear” is a previously-released track about the seduction of show business and the ways Allen has compromised herself for it. She quips, nodding to the obsessions of contemporary politics, “I am a weapon of massive consumption; / It’s not my fault, it’s how I’m programmed to function.”There are, of course, songs less successful than others—for instance, “Chinese” tries to celebrate the comfortable and mundane...
...shoulder-to-shoulder crowd, my friends and I took turns resting by sitting down on the permafrost in a bizarre forest of legs as the sky began to lighten. After a one second frisking, Transportation Security Administration officials eventually let us through. I could easily have carried a weapon onto the Mall. Luckily, we managed to snag the best front -row spots in our section. Things were looking up as the sun rose on the first day of Obama’s presidency. The poorly-controlled crowd, however, had something else in mind. There were no longer any police officers...
...Plus, the Crimson has a not-so-secret weapon...
...moved a long-range missile capable of delivering a nuclear warhead into test position; should a launch follow - and South Korean sources say they now expect one in the next month or two - it would be the most provocative act the North has taken since it tested a nuclear weapon in fall 2006. Furthermore, Pyongyang announced late last week that it will no longer recognize any political or military agreements struck with Seoul, including a border demarcation in the so-called West Sea, where there have been two bloody clashes between the North and South in the past decade...