• The next chart shows that global markets as a whole topped out with the U.S. market a couple of weeks ago (leaving a potential double-top in place).

    FORBES: Charts Say This Rally Is Not Yet In The Clear

  • Kids have to sign up for it every fall and agree to participate in a couple of civic activities (making a bike trail, for instance, or visiting a local industry).

    FORBES: Local heroes

  • If you have to have your memory refreshed with your report more than a couple of times (or at all in a simple case), cannot articulate your methods of investigation, use an inordinate number of vocalized pauses, allow yourself to get flustered, or just generally look like a dunce, the defense attorney has successfully tacked you on a cross.

    FORBES: Q: What are some cultural faux pas in police departments?

  • Only vegetarian dining options were a bit disappointing, as it offered just a couple of options in Philly (I know of many more) and a place in Newark, Harvest Table (which I was still happy to learn about), besides several in NYC.

    FORBES: Roadtrippers.com App Launches Just In Time For Thanksgiving Travel

  • That survey was requested by America's Congress nearly a decade ago, and was stimulated in part by the dramatic images of Comet Shoemaker-Levy, whose collision with Jupiter in 1994 generated a great deal of public awareness of the risk of asteroid impacts. (A couple of Hollywood films exploring doomsday scenarios also swayed opinion.) In 2005 Congress ordered the survey that is about to start.

    ECONOMIST: The American Association for the Advancement of Science

  • Short of success in international competitions, the leading English teams and a couple of Scottish clubs (which have a separate league) have looked for ways to make money that are less exposed to results on the pitch.

    ECONOMIST: Golden goals

  • With world-class diving, a fantastic roll call of birds and a couple of marine national parks ( Mnazi Bay-Ruvula Estuary Marine Park and Mafia Island Marine Park), coastal Tanzania is no slouch in the wildlife department.

    BBC: Tanzania��s overlooked coastline

  • We also poured a couple of bottles of cava (Spanish sparkling wine) and a Spanish rose, in the hopes they would help with the juicy gossip and witty banter.

    NPR: New Year Is Time for Tapas

  • It seems a lot of ballyhoo for a couple of mutts, but William (Bill) Remkus is appropriately solemn.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • You took your undergrad degree and put your head down into your career, got married, raised a couple of babies (on the down low, of course, because being a mom was okay, but talking about it was a career killer) and built yourself the equivalent of a Ph.

    FORBES: If You're Job Hunting at 50 with No Advanced Degree, Do the 'Jerry Maguire'

  • The trouble with competing with Apple, aside from the supply chain mountain to surmount, is that the smarts and guts of the iPad have been in development (loosely) for a couple of decades (going back to the graphical features of Objective C developed at NeXT).

    FORBES: No Worries, iPad, Amazon's Android Tablet Is Just a Nook-Killer.

  • And even though everyone was far more at the effect of natural forces (a couple of dry years, or a run of the black death, and it was all over), there was still a fairly direct correlation between working hard and doing well.

    FORBES: End the 19th Century! Treating Employees Like Owners

  • Haut swore under oath that he personally saw (from a distance) "a couple" of alien-like bodies (small torsos, big heads) stored at the base and that he believed there were two crash sites.

    FORBES: Those Roswell Aliens Dropped In Everywhere

  • Kain, for example, has weighed in on lemonade stands a couple of times ( 1, 2) and directs readers to a similar case in which Salem, Oregon officials have gone after a woman who is having yard sales to pay for bone cancer treatment.

    FORBES: Lemonade and Liberty

  • It was dropped a couple of times by my son (not while it was in use thankfully), and lived for a couple of weeks in a bag without any data loss.

    FORBES: Toshiba's Slim Hard Drive Makes Sharing Family Life Easier

  • Beautiful and brown, the tiny creature lands next in a sleazy pawnshop, then in the cramped Prague apartment of a childless couple, dreamy Mila (Natasa Burger), who has wanted a baby desperately, and her rent-a-cop mate, Franta (Jiri Machacek), who can't adopt because of his criminal past as a soccer hooligan.

    WSJ: Bouncing Czechs -- and Besieged Nazis

  • The disorder can set in within the first two to three days after giving birth, and up to a few months after (the average is a couple of weeks).

    FORBES: Postpartum Psychology: Depression, Anxiety, OCD, and Psychosis

  • Since 1994, more than a dozen countries have liberalised their laws on abortion (with a couple of countries tightening them up).

    ECONOMIST: Reproductive health

  • The first is that the NAND flash market is severely depressed at the moment, a stage that Objective Analysis predicts will finally end (for a couple of years) in the middle of 2013.

    FORBES: CES: No Kodak, No SanDisk

  • Robin Williams plays Alan, who was sucked into the Jumanji board as a boy and emerges twenty-six years later when a couple of kids (Kirsten Dunst and Bradley Pierce) open up the game and roll the dice.

    NEWYORKER: Jumanji

  • Conscious of his newfound status, Shah has bought a couple of Mercedes-Benzes but prefers his old Toyota Corolla (albeit using the services of a driver) so he can get around more quickly through Mumbai's traffic snarls.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • We had a blowout sushi dinner with a couple of bottles of good Montrachet (white burgundy).

    FORBES: Get Paid to Eat Out!

  • And he has a great genuine smile (a big likeability cue) that he flashed a couple of times tonight.

    FORBES: The Body Language Winner of the Third Presidential Debate

  • With no authority to collect taxes, the IRS released a statement advising that taxpayers who had paid taxes would be entitled to refunds and a couple of airlines (including Delta) agreed that they would work with customers to issue refunds.

    FORBES: IRS, Congress Now Say No to Ticket Tax Refunds

  • In brief, the physical installation simply involved plugging the AV cables (included) into the SlingBox and our set-top box (a Philips Freeview box, to be precise), then taping a couple of IR emitters onto the front of our set-top box, and finally hooking the SlingBox up to our router (via a couple of SlingLink ethernet wall-plug bridges as our router was too far away).

    ENGADGET: App review: SlingPlayer Mobile for Android

  • As I pointed out a couple of days back, talk about a new cheaper iPhone (or iPhone Mini) is spreading.

    FORBES: Is Apple's Cheaper iPhone Coming At $100 A Piece?

  • Brian Cox only had a couple of scenes, and obviously Hopkins gets a meatier role (excuse the pun), but it doesn't really work that well.

    BBC: Red Dragon: Your views

  • However, he did tell us that a rig equipped with 2GB of RAM and a dual-core processor running at 2GHz can easily support up to 6 displays showing pictures "with a little video" -- in other words: a couple of Flash videos (not 6x DivX rips) along side your Office applications.

    ENGADGET: Samsung's UbiSync monitor rig: all USB, all the time

  • I've mentioned before how much I hate the overused word "edgy, " and "The Muse" contains a couple of references to Brooks' character (a family man named Steven Phillips) losing his edge.

    CNN: Review: 'The Muse' uninspiring

  • No cigarettes or tobacco are on the list of needs, but a couple are permitted to buy four cans of lager and a bottle of red (keeps better than white) wine each week.

    BBC: Do you live above the bread, butter and jam line?

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