In today's metal-based gadgets, you either need to bend a piece of sheet metal, or die-cast with an inferior alloy like aluminum or magnesium.
Did he not invade Iraq on trumped-up charges, bend America's laws and values to permit the torture of prisoners, and leave his successor the worst economic crisis since the 1930s?
Tobias Seidl at the University of Zurich says that's because nobody thought fast-moving ants were smart enough to bend and stretch their way under low-hanging obstacles without first slowing down to check them out.
Dr. ORSZAG: Well, the key to our long-term fiscal future is actually improving the efficiency of the health care system, and I think there's a lot that can be done there to bring - to bend the curve on health care costs.
Howls of protest went up when Pakistan's brilliant off-spinner Saeed Ajmal mentioned a 23.5% bend in his arm in an interview during his team's recent Test series thrashing of England.
He pointed specifically to projects in Alabama that have received federal monies: a ferry in Gee's Bend that restarted service in 2006, and a 56-foot-tall cast-iron statue of Vulcan, the Roman god of the fire and forge, in Birmingham.
In the Philips wing for instance, Gerrit Berckheyde's "The 'Golden Bend' in the Herengracht" (1671-72), a shimmering, timeless image of one of Amsterdam's principal canals and a recent acquisition, was tastelessly used as a prop in a didactic display on the history of Dutch urban development.
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According to the South Bend Tribune in Indiana -- the newspaper of Notre Dame's hometown, the two met -- yes, met -- after a football game in Palo Alto, California, in 2009.
He's only lived in Bend for a few months, but he has already launched his own start-up and consults for several other local firms.
People waited in line for an hour to get Whitman's autograph--she signed collectible "Meg cards, " T shirts, even a forehead--and to bend her ear.
The owner's English-speaking son even throws in a little advice: pull on the reins, like a horse, to bend the runners and steer the sled.
If he wasn't what the modern world wanted -- if he wasn't prepared to bend every principle or rule to appease all the people all the time -- then that's the world's problem rather than his.
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