Word: agrounder
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...initiative-about race, immigration or taxes, inevitably-on the ballot. Indeed, there is a weird karmic genius to the current electoral gimmick, the movement to recall Governor Gray Davis from office. It has turned politics itself into a ballot issue-with Davis in the dock, representing a system run aground...
...Cheng Chui-ping, 53, Chinese alleged head of a global people-smuggling ring; in Hong Kong to the U.S. Better known by her alias "Big Sister Ping," Cheng is accused of masterminding a 1993 attempt to smuggle 300 Chinese to the U.S. on the ship Golden Venture, which ran aground off New York, killing 10 passengers. The FBI says Cheng has smuggled tens of thousands of Chinese into the U.S. and calls her the "mother of all snakeheads...
...then governments step in and pick up the tab. And as the economic crunch continues, both governments and corporations are watching their employees' health as carefully as their fiscal health - and trying to get staff to work at full capacity. But grand initiatives to boost attendance have run aground due to everything from union pressure to slack doctors to sneaky employers. In the Czech Republic, for example, it's not just the workers that abuse the system. Since the government picks up the sick-pay tab, some employers put workers on sick leave during seasonal drops in demand. As Jiri...
Before running aground of yet another corporate scandal, the University needs to be rapidly redirected away from the peril of corporate and personal interests and towards the interests of the Harvard community and the public—here or in Russia—that the school should be serving...
...BATTLE The Virginia had destroyed two Union warships and run a third aground the day before the Monitor arrived. The two ironclads pounded each other at close range for hours before drawing away, never to fight again...