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Across the main concourse a 12-m (39-ft) bronze thumb by César sticks out like, well, a sore thumb.
John McCain, R-Ariz. ( Face the Nation ), comparing the situation to "the movie Groundhog Day : We wake up every morning and Saddam is sticking his thumb in our eye."
A good rule of thumb for understanding how product proliferation affects demand uncertainty is that the demand uncertainty for a product category increases as the square root of the number of products in the category (assuming that the total demand for the product category remains unchanged and that the individual items in the category have demand distributions that are statistically independent and identically distributed).
But the American land of opportunity that goes reeling by in the background turns out to be a nightmare of free-floating violence and organized fascism (brilliantly imagined, by the way), until the America of A Cool Million has outdone in scariness even the America of Kafka's Amerika . West's hero loses his thumb, his teeth, his leg, his scalp, and his nose; and the creepier his sufferings become, the funnier is the book, sad to say.
Linux may be impractical for the masses, but its rebel cachet--"The Man doesn't have me under his thumb!"