We can measure the wink of a quark and the glimmer of quasar, but to plumb the depths of the mind of a man or woman is still beyond our reach.
The Federal Reserve's fundamental blunder in no way excuses the reckless, eye-popping practices of those mortgage bankers who lent money to people without even checking that their alleged incomes were real or who, in effect, gave the wink and nod to dicey borrowers, signaling that when their teaser interest rates were up, they could get new mortgages at new teaser rates.
Even after his music grew more ambitious, he was still inclined to slip his audiences the occasional wink.
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The first wink turns this closing statement into an epigraph for her career.
At the pace Wink's signing up new readers, Clermont expects to have a base of 150, 000 subscribers by its first anniversary--an impressive mark, even by Time Inc. standards.
The two Niagaras wink at one another across the gorge, the contrapuntal faces of globalism: on the Canadian side, the monotony of our worldwide monoculture, the proliferation of malls and brands and franchises proclaiming globalism's intent to make every town look the same, from Benares to Boise.
For Clermont, who tried for six years to launch Wink the traditional way, results like that are statuesque.
To make matters worse for Wink, the interactive TV industry has been moving toward an open standard that will make Wink's software easier to copy.
Their perfectly scrubbed decks bristle with security guards, while hot tubs bubble and helipads wink at the sky.
He says this has been overcome by his researchers through the use of a wink as a command trigger.
Tilda Swinton, who plays Orlando, may not actually wink at the audience, but she always looks as if she were about to.
Afternoon tea is offered with a whisky-focused wink at the Prohibition era.
Long before Mr Edwards went on trial, Louisiana's politicians were assumed to greet anyone who tried to do business in the state with a wink and an upturned palm.
Decked out in a blue suit and a red, polka-dotted tie with a matching handkerchief in his breast pocket, he stands with guests for pictures alongside three silver Super Bowl trophies, which gleam and wink in the lights.
In a short preface Mr Kynaston says that his intention was to demythologise the City which had thought of itself as a village in which a man's word was his bond and discipline was administered by a nod and a wink from the governor of the Bank of England.
Complete with a doctrine that gives a cheeky wink to the Futurist manifesto - "We are enslaved to the Fast Life, which disrupts our habits, pervades our privacy and forces us to ear Fast Foods" -- the organization today has spread to 80 countries, from Austria to Venezuela, with over 85, 000 members.
Wink is not the father that Hushpuppy's vanished mother would have wanted him to be.
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The messages direct users to Wink's Web site, where they can sign up for a year's free subscription.
"The Fed can't wink, scratch its nose, wiggle its ears or do anything that would signal they are about to change policy from what they are doing now, " says Brian Bethune, an economics professor at Gordon College in Wenham, Mass.
The location has become so synonymous with the stranger moments in rock music history that the films Almost Famous and This Is Spinal Tap used the hotel as a filming location, both in an effort to add a bit of authenticity and as a wink to music fans in the know.
On the other hand, Mobile-review apparently knows the right hands to shake and eyes to wink to get hold of a prototype unit extraordinarily early, and they're taking full advantage of the opportunity.
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"I always knew you were one of us, " an African-American friend told the senator with a nudge and wink.
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In April of 2000, a man named Gemini Wink was hiking through the swamps near Tampa, Florida, looking to take pictures of alligators.
There is a very busy lobby scene, with the thumping, DJ-hosted Wink Bar and three restaurants that cater to an upscale local crowd as well as hotel guests.
They can look at the stream of graduates, assess the predictable (and unpredictable) twists of their lives, and turn to one another and wink, "I knew it all the time!"
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My books include the novels "Sellout" and "Wink" and several educational titles (subjects varying from drug abuse and its impact on society, a historical look at domestic spying, and a biography of Bill Gates) as well as "Tested XX" - the bestselling history of my rather inbred family, which also happens to be America's oldest family of knife-makers, the infamous Case clan.
Iran may now be playing the same dangerous game of denial with a wink.
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