Word: armfuls
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...Bureau of Engraving and Printing, an arm of the U.S. Treasury, produces 35 million notes a day with a face value of approximately $635 million at its two printing facilities--in Washington and Fort Worth, Texas--and all those greenbacks are printed on paper supplied by Crane and shipped by truck from Massachusetts. Any interruption in that production could be "devastating to the U.S. economy," Van Den Brandt says...
...Government Accountability Office (GAO), the auditing arm of Congress, agrees. "A second supplier could be greater assurance of a steady supply of goods, even if one site were disrupted by a strike, natural disaster, bankruptcy or terrorist attack," GAO investigators wrote...
...many things in Iraq do, with an explosion. At about 7:15 in the morning on Nov. 19, a string of four humvees were on routine patrol in a residential area when a white taxicab approached from the opposite end of the street. The Marines made hand and arm signals for the taxi to stop. But as the taxi halted near the first humvee, a bomb under the fourth humvee exploded, killing its driver--Lance Corporal Miguel (T.J.) Terrazas, 20, of El Paso, Texas--wounding two of his comrades and shattering windows 150 yards away. Marines said the convoy almost...
MORALES We will never break off relations with the U.S. We're coming from a culture of dialogue, but dialogue without strong-arm pressures. We've met with Seņorita Condoleezza--a very nice woman--and they say they want to be partners with Bolivia. But I think we still need to understand each other's definition of democracy...
...baby lies whimpering in a clinic run by the aid organization Doctors Without Borders. His belly is distended by malnutrition, and although he appears to be in pain, he has no energy to cry. A nurse tries for half an hour to inject antibiotics into Amoni's twiglike arm, its wrinkled skin wrapped loosely around the bones. Without the drugs, he will die, wasting away from starvation...