Once upon a time, the candy industry was pretty straightforward: You made a crunchy, sticky, gooey or creamy sugar-filled product that customers, mainly kids, adored and that put many dentist's children through college.
Whether Goldman is settling fraud allegations without admitting nor denying guilt, fighting disgruntled investors in court, lobbying against financial regulation or simply holding out its sticky tentacles for bailout money, "vampire squid" pretty much covers it.
Director Scott Hicks ("Shine") bathes the whole show in an amber halo that makes the Deep South look like an antiseptic shampoo commercial and shies away from anything that might be dramatically sticky, complex or even halfway interesting.
But many of the other rooms are not--you can comfortably play billiards on the fine English table, a twin of one at Buckingham Palace, but the library or Jade Room may get a bit sticky.
For better or for worse, never-ending litigation and sticky sales injunctions seem to becoming an unfortunate mainstay of the modern product cycle.
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Others scrubbed afternoon or evening sessions, citing Central Florida's sticky heat.
It worked out okay and it's a decent enough option for those times when you don't want to, or can't, use one of the 3M sticky pads, but still want to get that sort of perspective.
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Just as important, WaMu will hope that the deal will enable it to pull away from the sticky patch it has been in for a year or so.
While debate between Romney and Gingrich fell into an argument on semantics (was Gingrich a consultant or a lobbyist), the housing market has become one of those sticky issues where Republican fundamentals, including the ideals of small government, clashe with the public interest.
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The team says the brush layer protects cells from the sticky mucus and acts as a "second barrier" in case viruses or bacteria penetrate the mucus.
The witness told the court that several samples taken using sticky tape to pick up skin cells showed a mixture of DNA from two or three individuals.
Newspaper and media use is as sticky and slow to change, as illogically romantic, as our habits in eating or dress.
Or that 67 percent said they might not have left if their service provider had simply resolved a sticky issue during the first interaction.
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