Word: afternoon
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...their uniform miniskirts and stilettos, three young women bend over ironing boards, pressing men's shirts before a live studio audience. They're competing to be schedine, young women who dance a little, wear little and say little on Quelli Che ... Il Calcio (Football Fans), a popular Sunday afternoon show on Italian state TV. "Schedine have to be beautiful, but they've also got to be practical," grins the show's presenter. "Let's see how they do!" An ex-footballer descends to judge the ironing contest, awarding the prize to a lissom blonde...
...Minister back in 2005, when she was 28, and was interviewing him for a Mediaset program. Alloro missed her plane; he offered her a ride on his jet. As they flew, she recalls, he quizzed her on his policies, on that morning's newspapers. By the end of the afternoon - some of which was spent strolling in the natural museum section of his Sardinian villa, looking at olive trees that were a gift from the Israeli Prime Minister - he had asked her to join his new task force on Europe. "He chose people who already work in TV, because they...
...people buying a lot of smaller items, like stocking stuffers,” said Julie J. Lee, a sales associate at Passport Boutique, which sold out of mittens by mid-afternoon...
...Dubai debacle triggered immediate concern about a new wave of financial problems rippling through global markets. Stock-market indexes plummeted, the cost of insuring against a default by Dubai jumped and the dollar strengthened as investors rushed back into greenbacks. On Friday afternoon, stock markets made something of a recovery as analysts took a second look at what Dubai's proposed repayment halt means. Eighty billion dollars - Dubai's total liabilities - may sound like a lot of money but in the context of the past year, it's not huge. And while banks like HSBC and Barclays have billions...
...first met Hancock at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. He was assisting the U.S. Olympic Committee media officers. Like so many other journalists, I leaned on Hancock to secure scarce credentials to the big events. At the Beijing Games, I called him one afternoon with some inane logistical question. He answered my call while sightseeing, taking a well-deserved break from the Olympic grind. I offered to leave him alone, but he wouldn't hear of it. Hancock stopped in his tracks and talked me through the issue...