Word: toasted
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PowerPlay: Successfully took down Blair in the NYU parents' dinner toast selection process...
Tried to use foolish Dan to knock Hilary Duff out of the running for the toast at the NYU freshman parents' dinner...
...Here's why: Remember, the biggest factor in whether the 401(k) works as designed has to do with when you retire. If the market rises that year, you're fine. If you retired last year, you're toast. And the chances of your becoming a victim of this huge flaw in the 401(k) plan are pretty high. The market fell in four of the nine years since the beginning of the decade. That means anyone retiring this decade had a nearly 50% chance of leaving work in a down market. In fact, your chances of retiring into...
Because McCain is targeting Democrats instead of Republicans, he has warmed - for now, anyway - his relations with party colleagues. GOP leaders who once lived in fear of McCain's bombs now toast him at party conferences and join him in chummy colloquies on the Senate floor. McCain spent part of his summer vacation touring the country with minority leader Mitch McConnell, a longtime nemesis on campaign-finance reform, and the two men inveighed against the evils of Obamacare. "He's been constructive. He's been part of the team," says Senator Lamar Alexander of Tennessee. "He's provided the kind...
...seen as key to the industry's future. In Thailand, 7-Eleven sells burgers. In Japan, they fry their own chicken. In the U.S., a quarter of the chain's stores have rolled out oven-cooked pizzas. 7-Eleven's rival in Hong Kong, Circle K, serves toast and pasta dishes. "Convenience stores as an industry are heavily reliant on product categories such as cigarettes, which are under extreme pressure from a health and regulatory perspective," says Dennis Phelps, vice president for fresh food at 7-Eleven's corporate headquarters in Dallas. "People may choose to quit smoking, but they...