Word: buttoning
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Smith & Wesson's web site now boasts a flashing button that leads visitors to the text of the agreement, complete with new bullet points that underscore the "real" meaning or ramifications of each clause. Federal lawmakers don't know what hit them: While Smith & Wesson has endured a great deal of industry ire after its conciliatory move, there was little indication the company would back down altogether. Maybe they should have seen it coming: "The confusion between the Smith & Wesson reading of the deal and the government's reading was apparent from the get-go," says TIME national correspondent Edward...
...threat last week from the House Foreign Aid Committee to deduct the value of the sale from Israel's aid package suggests the White House may face growing domestic pressure to lean on the Barak and his government - not least because China itself lurks as a perennial hot-button domestic issue at election time. Israel can count on strong support in both parties on Capitol Hill when it comes to the peace process, and Republicans were even happy to underwrite former prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu's constant efforts to sabotage it, but kissing up to China might offend some traditionally...
...nouveaux contours and colors of products merely top off the vast improvements that have been made in the underlying functional design. Moreover, consumers demand that products function conveniently, safely, ecologically and obviously. We scoff at a microwave oven with a complex 50-button console. If you can't figure out how to heat a cup of cocoa without reading the instructions, it's the manufacturer who is stupid. A fuchsia cell phone might be pretty, but a cell phone that does not require a manual--now that's truly beautiful. KATRINA GALWAY Washington...
...cell fires, you see one pattern; when it stops, you see another. Your awareness can be read from a single neuron. Now, in an even more unsettling trick, they send an electrical current to the neurons in that part of your brain and, with a push of a button, make you see one pattern or the other...
...blithely asserts. He tempers that statement with the admission that he did own one pair sometime in high school "as like a club uniform or something." Avoiding casual wear "is not a comfort issue," he maintains; he is just as happy in his usual tailored slacks, ties and button-downs...