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Several CEOs across the dining, retail, fashion and airline industries have said their middle-class customers are increasingly strapped, even as high earners keep on buying.

They were standing in broad daylight in a Brooklyn park playing the “ping pong shake,” a game in which they were to shake ping-pong balls out of an empty Kleenex box strapped to their waist.

The stopwatch featured in the introduction to “60 Minutes” is strapped to a bomb when it appears on “South Park.”

Players are weighed every morning and those who return overweight after holidays are forced to train with extra kilograms strapped to their bodies.

For days, huge columns of Palestinians have streamed southwards from Gaza City in donkey carts, rickshaws, vehicles strapped high with belongings, and on foot.