Word: whiskers
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...blades, which you screwed down into what was called a "safety razor" - an instrument that might leave the face dappled with bloodied toilet paper wads. The blades now rusting in the depository drew more blood in their time than the guillotine. For years, since the perfection of miraculous little whisker-reapers that come in cartridges, I have shaved blind, with impunity, without a mirror. I haven't cut myself since the Carter administration...
...good causes fund, we'll give it straight back to charity," says Branson. "This is just to deter us from getting our costs back." Branson-who doesn't think the public associates Virgin with his lottery fight-says it's a matter of principle. He actually came within a whisker of getting the business last year and believes he was misled into spending more money to maintain a bid he should have won on the merits. So why did Branson lose the lottery? "It's rather awkward for me to say why," says Branson, coyly. "Ring the editor...
...with a slimmed-down station that could include Russia as a cost-sharing partner. Even in a Congress raised on pork, such seeming make-work did not go down easily. In June 1993, Roemer introduced an amendment to cut off station funding. The measure failed, but only by a whisker, 216 to 215. In a partisan Congress, a one-vote margin is a tenuous thing, and in order to widen the gap, NASA turned to a time-tested budgetary strategy, spreading the wealth...
...legislators elected at the polls, together with 38 appointed by the military and 200 nominated by the present military-backed government. From the initial count, the ruling party is drawing 20 percent of the vote, which would bring it ?- under the stacked-deck electoral system ?- within a whisker of holding on to power. Add to that an opposition vote split between Megawati?s secular Indonesian Democratic Party for Struggle and various Islamic parties, and the country?s next president still looks likely to be decided in a series of backroom deals. Then again, no military-backed deal is going...
...stock market has officially entered La-La Land. The summer rally that last week pushed the Dow Jones industrial average to within a whisker of 8000 has blown through the last remaining bounds of sanity. No sweat, say some Wall Street swamis. The market has a permanent visa to the ether. But don't believe it. Like Wile E. Coyote running off a cliff while chasing the Roadrunner, the market is churning its legs furiously, but there's nothing beneath it. When investors finally look down...