Word: unexpectedness
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The biggest knock on income annuities is that once you've forked over a pile of cash, it's gone forever. So don't spend all your savings on one; 25% is a good target. In some cases, you can recover all or part of what you paid for an...
Republican strategists attribute the turnaround to Schwarzenegger?s return to the centrist persona that got him elected. He has made a show of distancing himself from the unpopular President Bush, including rejecting a White House request to boost the number of California National Guardsmen patrolling the border. Schwarzenegger also extended...
Yet the key here is that it's not just Ferrell. John C. Reilly, as Ricky Bobby's best friend, is hilarious, serving as his teammate in early scenes (coining their grocery store-inspired slogan: "Shake and Bake") and then as his nemesis later on. Amy Adams, as Ricky Bobby...
Feeling the heat from the militias and security forces, Baghdad's Sunnis know their best hope for protection lies in the Americans, the very occupying forces they have despised for toppling them from power. My meeting with a high-level commander of a Sunni insurgent group takes an unexpected turn...
Amid all the cursing and complaining, there's an unexpected benefit for the U.S. military: the proliferating investigations into the killing of civilians by American troops are being forgotten. In our previous meeting two months ago, the insurgent leader had been cursing the Marines accused in the massacre of innocent...