• "Get the ghosts of Christmas past out of there -- all those little cans of this and that, the beef sticks from the gift basket no one can bear to throw out, " says Ewer.

    CNN: Decluttering before the New Year

  • The accounting version will analyse whether a company "sticks out from the pack" in areas such as accruals, which are non-cash entries that can be manipulated by management.

    CNN: SEC to roll out 'RoboCop' against fraud

  • They do not have to keep spinning all of the sticks under the plates at the same time to keep all of the plates spinning (and thus keep them from falling off the sticks).

    FORBES: Names You Need to Know: Ernestine Fu

  • Otters spend most of the day resting in burrows, known as holts, which are built from sticks and branches along the water's edge.

    BBC: NEWS | UK | Wales | North East Wales | Flood otter's fight for survival

  • But many of the new councils are out in the sticks, well away from the national media's spotlight, and such local press as exists is not always keen to tangle with local bosses.

    ECONOMIST: Brazil

  • Provided the Cranborne deal sticks, the fuss from the Lords themselves is not going to wound the government.

    ECONOMIST: Lords reform

  • Shaking the sticks at each other from opposite ends of the country for two hours seems like a monumental waste of time, if you ask me.

    CNN: Review: 'Next Stop Wonderland' not much of a destination

  • Doomsday scenarios have become a familiar sight in the movies since the beginning of the Cold War, and for the most part, "Stephen King's The Mist, " from a King novella, sticks closely to the archetype.

    CNN: Review: 'The Mist' is bold and frightening

  • But from the late 1960s onwards, as the perfume of joss sticks drifted over Western civilisation, yoga caught on there too.

    ECONOMIST: Pattabhi Jois, a yoga teacher, died on May 18th, aged 93

  • Cynics might argue that a more accurate view of modern Britain could come from the likes of Plan B, whose "Ill Manors" single sticks the knife into Cameron's Britain, but a gig at Buckingham Palace was never going to be the place for punk sentiment.

    CNN: Review: Rock stars invade queen's front garden

  • Often, external pressure, not least from regulators wielding big sticks, spurs recognition of the need to change.

    FORBES: Banksters: The Scandals Continue

  • There were less than 500 spectators, who drifted in from the nearby sugar refinery whirling cane sticks around their heads.

    BBC: Championing Kenya's hope after violence

  • These ranged from the extent to which people want to have power over public services to the kinds of sticks and carrots they would like to see applied to encourage fellow citizens to behave in a socially responsible way.

    ECONOMIST: Bagehot

  • The 19-year-old snatched the ball from the grasp of Scott Donald and ran unopposed to the line before cutting inside and crossing under the sticks.

    BBC: St Helens 10-18 Leeds Rhinos

  • Moxibustion is usually divided into direct and indirect moxibustion, in which either moxa cones are placed directly on points or moxa sticks are held and kept at some distance from the body surface to warm the chosen area.

    UNESCO: Culture

  • He made one drink from the red flowers of the sorrel plant, which grows throughout the Caribbean, along with ginger, cinnamon sticks, ground cinnamon, whole cloves, brown sugar and rum.

    FORBES: Barbados, The Rum Island

  • The whole laundry industry--from detergents to stain sticks--will be affected.

    FORBES: Nanotechnology's Disruptive Future

  • Players from both teams gathered at center ice and raised their sticks in a salute to the city and fans who had shouted, "We are Boston" and "USA, USA, " during the game.

    WSJ: Sabres beat Bruins 3-2 in shootout

  • In Nairobi's slums, which are often divided along tribal lines, rival groups have been fighting each other with machetes and sticks as police use tear gas and bullets to keep them from pouring into the city center.

    NPR: Political Standoff Fuels Ethnic Violence in Kenya

  • But stay away from the salmon pastrami, leathery strips of fish wrapped around slightly soggy pretzel sticks.

    NEWYORKER: David Burke Kitchen

  • Even if the opposition sticks to its demand, this might deter Mr Gonzalez from calling a new election.

    ECONOMIST: The woes of three uncertain mini-democracies

  • And if Ms Merkel is successful and sticks around, she may prevent some state premiers from ever having a shot at the chancellorship.

    ECONOMIST: Germany's election

  • The amount of money that has been collected to date from preparers is clearly a real problem for the agency if the Court rules that the injunction sticks (though a voluntary designation might mitigate some of those concerns).

    FORBES: IRS Files Motion To Force Preparers Back Into Compliance, Cites Guess Who?

  • Carolyn was asked to sit down in the chair and pick a treat from a tray of marshmallows, cookies, and pretzel sticks.

    NEWYORKER: Don��t!

  • But no one is at all certain that harmony will persist when most of the Americans, who have recently taken over the leading foreign role in Basra from the British, themselves withdraw from Iraq in little over a year, if Barack Obama sticks to his proposed schedule.

    ECONOMIST: Iraq

  • Inexpensive USB memory sticks and hard drives full of data on our laptops give people the ability to remove data from our companies very easily.

    FORBES: Wikileaks' Positive Side Effect for IT

  • In the appetizers section, he gives recipes for Nan's Bacon Sticks, a recipe from Nan Kempner's private chef ("Just like Nan was, they are very chic and razor-thin").

    WSJ: That's Entertainment! Hosting �� la Alex Hitz

  • They live in homemade dome tents built with sticks and hung with pieces of plastic or a cloth flapping in the wind, feeble shelter from scorching daytime temperatures that reach 120 degrees.

    NPR: Somalia Struggles to Cope with Drought

  • He usually burns through seven or eight sticks during a five-setter, often switching from tension to tension, and generally going tighter as the match progresses, says his stringer Nate Ferguson, owner of Priority One, the company many top pros hire to handle their stringing.

    WSJ: Roger Federer: With Tennis Rackets, He Strings Them Loose

  • But Gidley struck two minutes from time and Cunningham wrote the fairytale ending by rumbling through a heap of bodies to touch down under the sticks.

    BBC: St Helens 40-30 Castleford Tigers

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