Word: phrasing
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...past three months. The game used to be about building a virtual Roman Empire, all glorious acquisitions and land-grabs. Now it's about building a Monaco, a tiny but incredibly profitable niche nation. Companies that don't understand the need to change direction--in geekspeak, the phrase is "turn and burn"--are doomed...
...Bloomers worn around the neck 30. Auto corp. that will extend health care to gay partners 31. Bill's partner 32. He spent more than $30 million on his New Jersey Senate nomination 34. High dudgeon 37. Reuben need 39. Hardly a blabbermouth 41. 1998 animated film 43. Phrase in disco names 44. Iron: prefix 45. He's at odds with 16-Down 47. OPEC units 48. Fool 49. Org. that will study cell-phone safety 50. Trent's predecessor 52. Simile center 53. Prefix with plunk or flop...
...that I'm highly unreliable, so I got two co-workers to sign up with me. Bravely opting for the "condensed, intensive" training seminar, we withstood three hours and eight chocolate chip cookies to listen to two of the sweetest women I've ever wanted to kill say the phrase "read with the child" 136 different ways. It seemed that the basis of the program was to read Time Inc. publications with our tutee. This was brilliant not only because it gets kids hooked for life on our product but also because In Style is a great way to reach...
...hate Jews/ blacks/ gay people/ Catholics/ old people/ Walloons/ Bosnian Muslims/ Italians/ Latinos/ Other") flashed for an instant in the perpetrator's brain, like summer lightning, but no deed was done, then would the mere thought - tagging along as, so to speak, cheerleader in the vivid, if Orwellian, phrase "hate crime" - be worthy, in itself, of 10 to 15 years in jail? If not, then why, under hate crimes law, is this matter of the perpetrator's state of mind taken into consideration...
...hope to Iranians depressed by two decades of official somberness. As he makes his way, greeting officials, bodyguards and Iranian journalists, he spots the two Americans on board. "Where are you from?" he asks, opening his arms. Could the President answer some questions? He laughs. "Inshallah [God willing]." The phrase could be construed as an Islamic brush-off: right now, at least, the President is talking to almost no one in the press. These days the President of Iran is moving very carefully...