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Also at trial, a former company executive testified that CEO He encouraged staff to “bend laws” and promised to reward people who did.

I sign to Autumn by taking four fingers on either hand, pointing them to my chest, and bending my wrists back and forth.

“Five of clubs, did you say? Afraid I don’t have time for cards today, not with this baby of mine chug-chug-chugging ’round the bend.

One diver died from the bends, two others had become permanently disabled, and the rest involved in the grueling enterprise were exhausted.

Remember how ObamaCare would “bend the cost curve”—i.e., slow the rate of growth? How about “if you like your healthcare plan, you can keep it”?