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macaroon technique - He used PowerPoint to impart what he calls the ?macaroon technique,? referring to the sandwich-like French macaron pastry. This can be applied to most any product (including, presumably, a Xerox machine) and goes something like this: ?Madam, this timepiece (or diamond or handbag) comes from our finest workshop and it has a value of $10,000. If you buy it, your children are sure to enjoy it for generations to come.?. ...

sorry gift - Because guilt over spending is playing a big role in the sales downturn, he teaches salespeople to suggest a ?sorry gift??of another timepiece?for a wife who might be disappointed that her husband just dropped a sizable sum on his own wrist.. ...

break the ton - When I was a kid we all drove muscle cars with enormous hemis. The term ?breakin? the ton? was popular slang. You broke the ton when 100 mph was significantly exceeded and sustained.. ...

ghost shift - Very low serial numbers, like very low MAC ID addresses, are a hallmark of the ?ghost shift,? i.e. the shift that happens very late at night when a rogue worker enters the factory and runs the production machine off the books. Significantly, ghost shifts are often run using marginal material that would normally be disposed of but were intercepted on the way to the grinder.. ...

stock - Wade will eventually shift to LeBron on defense, and while he does post some gaudy defensive numbers (almost 3 ?stocks? per game, to use some Simmons parlance), most of those come as a help-side defender.. ...

startle factor - Practical research shows that experienced pilots, with training provided by their airlines in upset recoveries, still struggle to perform when attempting to recover. There are many human factors involved in an actual upset, including the ?startle factor? a nd the sometimes overwhelming psychological aspects of an upset attitude. With appropriate instruction, pilots can learn how to recognize and recover from an upset.. ...

hair crush - OK guys I am not going to lie here, I do this thing that I like to call my ?hair crush.? My hair crushes are people with fab hair that I personally would kill to have.. ...

seagen - As for food Kelli is what she likes to call a, ?Seagen.? A vegan that eats seafood.. ...

rollup - Patrick Neil, a division manager for Ventura County?s probation department, would not comment on why Avary was removed from the furlough program. ?Any causes behind a rollup is not something we can discuss,? Neil said, using the term for when an inmate is transferred from one facility to another. Thursday evening, @avary?who has been referring to himself as #34?tweeted ?#34 is ?rolled up? to a higher security facility for exercising his first amendment rights. The truth he has discovered is too dangerous.?. ...

simming - It took a room full of networked computers called a ?render farm? to do in about 14 months what would have taken a single machine 16 years: churn out digital scenes precisely modeled after real life, Mr. Weigert and Mr. Engel said. Artists positioned the sun in the virtual sky, and dictated how every surface?metal, glass, wood or stone?would reflect rays and cast shadows. Teams installed virtual hinges in lampposts and etched thousands of fault lines into skyscrapers and houses so when simulated tremors or winds or waves were applied, a process called ?simming,? they?d crumble or buckle in natural-looking ways.. ...

nimbleton - So let?s raise a glass to big funds with a toast of sincere best wishes for their success . . . of course, I?ll be explicit about my ulterior motive: keeping the small fund space the preserve of the nimbletons. If big players continue to focus on big funds, it?ll be more beer for us.. ...

kitchen - Lobsters like the shelter of rocks and prefer cold water to warm. They move around a lot and find their food by smell?that?s what the antennas are for?and not by sight. But the whole notion of trapping them may be a misconception. There is some evidence to suggest that the traditional lobster pot, with its two ?rooms??the kitchen and the parlor, as they?re known?and funnel-shaped nets, is not as confining as fishermen think, and that the bugs come and go more or less as they please.. ...

skuke - In this little town on the south coast, people like me ? summer folk ? are known as skukes. I?ve never met anyone who knows the real derivation of the term, but it?s not a compliment. Skukes are annoying because they drive up the price of real estate and because they do for fun what year-rounders do for a living. Take lobstering, for example. Most of the summer there was a local man at the town dock selling lobsters for a very reasonable $4.99 a pound. Skukishly, I thought I would be more enterprising and try to catch my own. My goal was by the end of the summer to hear my family complain: ?What? Lobster again??. ...

parlor - Lobsters like the shelter of rocks and prefer cold water to warm. They move around a lot and find their food by smell?that?s what the antennas are for?and not by sight. But the whole notion of trapping them may be a misconception. There is some evidence to suggest that the traditional lobster pot, with its two ?rooms??the kitchen and the parlor, as they?re known?and funnel-shaped nets, is not as confining as fishermen think, and that the bugs come and go more or less as they please.. ...

broccoli journalism - Collective responsibility. Socialized journalism. This is the ultimate in broccoli journalism: You are not only forced to read what journalists say is good for you but you are now forced to pay for it through taxation.. ...

strap hanging - Usually the truck drivers wait at the opening of the valley for a U.S. Army patrol to pass and then they follow it, a practice soldiers have dubbed ?strap hanging.? Lining the sides of the road are the remains of scorched trucks belonging to drivers too impatient to wait for an informal escort.. ...

parclo - The Ontario Ministry of Transportation designed a modification to the original cloverleaf to address its shortcomings for the 400-series highways. The redesign creates more room for acceleration and deceleration and avoids the notoriously dangerous weaving lane. The Parclo has been embraced throughout the world as one of the most popular freeway-to-arterial interchange designs.. ...

Dipper - My exquisite pleasure as a Liberal party man who barely knew a Tory or ?Dipper? (as we called NDPers) was to work with people from organized labour, Liberals, Conservatives, ad people and NDPers all in a glorious coalition united in our desire to sweep city hall clean of the remnants of the Mel Lastman regime and restore pride to our city.. ...

jeggings - ?What?s so great this year,? she says, ?is that they?re making jeans that are great for boots.? They?re slim, soft, light and tight, fitting almost like leggings. In fact, At the store they like to call them ?jeggings.?. ...

dittoism - There is a tendency in favour of what is called ?dittoism,? i.e., everyone thinking the same thought without a healthy tendency to break the uniformity of thought.. ...

gerrymander: Dictionary.com Word of the Day - gerrymander: the dividing of an area into election districts so as to give one political party a majority in many districts while reducing the strength of the othe...