Word: armfuls
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...training in Little Rock, veteran Wal-Mart truck driver Danny Ewell found cause to call Highway Watch. On Father's Day, as he was leaving a Red Lobster in Johnson City, Tenn., he saw a young man walking between two cars with an orange T shirt draped over his arm. Peeking out from under the T shirt was a semiautomatic weapon. "Because of the training, I knew to look at his height and his hair color, and I got the make and plates of his car," Ewell says. "Normally I would have just looked at his clothes...
Suddenly I see a passenger jump into my aisle, grasping something in both hands. I start to aim at him, but under the pressure I am experiencing, my muscles aren't responding well; it's as if my arms were moving through setting concrete. I hear the pop, pop, pop of his weapon. One round hits my stomach, another my right arm. The last, just below my eye. Trained to keep fighting even if shot, I focus the front sight of my Sig at his heart and pull the trigger repeatedly, riding the recoil. My assailant drops to the floor...
...doing business. Siemens just negotiated a return to a 40-hour week for the 4,000 workers at its two phone plants in Germany. Philips is discussing increasing working hours at its Hamburg semiconductor plant as part of a cost-cutting plan. Automakers DaimlerChrysler and Opel, the German arm of General Motors, and railroad firm Deutsche Bahn are currently negotiating longer hours with their unions. The German rollback has become possible because of new union contracts that allow for extended working hours in exchange for investment guarantees. But companies are also talking tough. Siemens isn't paying more wages...
...court appearance, Lukovic's attorney had promised his client would provide "irrefutable evidence" proving who was behind the killing. Instead, Lukovic, known to his friends as "Legija" for his time in the French Foreign Legion, merely protested his innocence. Dressed in a neat gray suit that concealed his garish, arm-length tattoos, he said that when he heard he was accused of the crime, "I told myself, Milorad, this must be some mistake. Sleep on it. Something has to be cleared up." He went into hiding that night, but turned himself in to Belgrade police last month. Far from clearing...
...achieving." Few in Sri Lanka have forgotten that it was an Australian cricket umpire, Ross Emerson, who was among the first to cast doubt on the bowling action of Sri Lanka's favorite son by repeatedly penalizing Muralitharan for "chucking"?using a bent, instead of a regulation-straight arm?during a 1996 match against the West Indies. The bowler walked off the ground in tears. Even though Muralitharan has gone on to take a world record 527 wickets in 90 tests, polls still show that Emerson remains among the most disliked men in Sri Lanka. Now John Howard may join...