Word: post
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Everything is different when you are completely nude, though it helps when everyone around you--in line at the post office or dancing at a disco, for example--is naked too. Inside the walls of the "naturist quarter" at Le Cap d'Agde, a sprawling French resort on the Mediterranean Sea that is reputedly the largest assemblage of naked souls in this world, the undressed population soars to 40,000 during July and August...
...important question for the defendants is how much money they will have to put up during the appeals process. Typically, the loser must post the full amount of the award while the case is under appeal. The Florida legislature passed a law this year capping the size of the appeal bond that each tobacco company must post at $100 million--a law the plaintiffs are challenging. If the cap is removed, the tobacco companies could conceivably be forced to file for bankruptcy, which would disrupt this case as well as the $209 billion settlement with the states, part of which...
...someone so central to the process, Ross could not be more self-effacing. Of the three primary U.S. negotiators of the post-cold war era--the other two are George Mitchell, who helped midwife the Northern Irish peace, and Richard Holbrooke, the brash, Balkan knucklebuster and current U.N. Ambassador--Ross is far and away the most modest. While Holbrooke is known for his deft use of sycophancy and insinuation--key tools of diplomacy when used properly--Ross uses a different method. "Dennis makes up for that lack of flattery and manipulation through trust and discretion," says a former confidant...
...wrong people and tell them to come back in a few years when they need a little more. But to do it well, to apply all those billions where they will make the most difference, is a job and an obsession that take up almost every minute of her post-Microsoft career...
...notable. Once considered a prime choice for the spot himself, Ridge suggested that he was now out of the running - his pro-choice views made him too radioactive for the GOP's social conservatives to accept. Ridge wanted to know if McCain would reconsider his opposition to the post. McCain reiterated that he didn't want the job and didn't want to be asked, but at the end of his string of denials McCain conceded: "If I were asked, you know what I'd say." Ridge knew his old friend was saying he would take the job and asked...