Word: zipping
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...region, southeast of Lyudinovo. She wants to borrow 30,000 rubles - just over $1,000. The woman taking her call fills in the details on a screen. Experienced call-center workers can process a request and grant pre-approval in under six minutes, but Kumyiny can't remember her zip code, which slows everything down. Watching over the process is deputy operations director Viktoriya Selezneva, who says the economic crisis has yet to arrive. "The volume of calls hasn't decreased for us," she says. But then, the Christmas season - the busiest time for consumer loans - is approaching fast...
Dressed in a green T-shirt, brown zip-up hoodie, jeans, and sneakers, the only hint that Charles C. Davis is a biologist comes from the stitching of a plant on his jacket arm. Around his office lies a Chopin CD, a bobblehead tiger (given to him by his mother), and an Indian decorative cloth that his friend gave him when Davis was planning to become an engineer...
...From the port of Mytilene, you can see the lights of the Turkish coastal town of Dikili twinkling on the horizon. Further north, where the strait between the two countries narrows to just three miles, traffickers zip immigrants across by Jet Ski. But the usual form of transport is a humble dinghy or decrepit motorboat crammed past capacity, and destined to be abandoned after the crossing - if the boat and its passengers make it. In October, in separate incidents, Greek and Turkish authorities recovered 18 bodies; the E.U. estimates that 3,000 or more people die annually attempting to slip...
...arrangement has been manipulated and fussed with until the music feels encased in Lucite. Appetite for Destruction, Guns N' Roses' 1987 debut, had a brutish confidence - it sounded like five sharpened instruments and lots of open space. That Guns N' Roses was a band; this incarnation is a whole zip code. On some tracks, Rose has five guitarists soloing and jamming to fill every cranny, but the result isn't chaos so much as needlepoint. "Madagascar" has a string section, horns, samples of the "I have a dream" speech and dialogue from Cool Hand Luke, but everything is so dully...
...Harvard starts out right by whooping Yale’s ass with 4 goals and 4 touchdowns to Yale’s zip in this half-rugby, half-soccer game, one of the first intercollegiate football matches. 1890: Harvard captures the first of its seven national championships, 12-6. 1894: Rugby brutality continues as seven players were reported to be carried out in “dying conditions,” according to newspapers and had to be suspended for two years. Also, first Yale game with William H. Lewis, Harvard’s first black captain and first football...