Word: armfuls
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...Beijing headquarters of China Central Television (CCTV) are heavily guarded, as one would expect of a key propaganda arm of the Communist Party...
...sand, and went under completely. With no footing whatsoever, and with the weight of the 80-lb. flamethrower on my back, I was unable to come up. I knew I was drowning, and made a futile attempt to unbuckle the flamethrower harness. Inadvertently, I had raised the firing arm, which is about 3 ft. long, above my head. One of my team saw it, grabbed hold, and pulled me up out of the hole to solid sand. Then slowly, half-drowned, coughing water and dragging my feet, I began walking toward the chaos ahead...
...Wednesday, shortly before the Red Sox played the Oakland Athletics, Morgalis, Harvard assistant coach Matt Hyde, and Hendricks—his arm wrapped in ice—milled around the Sox clubhouse, chatting with players and watching NASCAR on the clubhouse TV. Stars like Curt Schilling and Manny Ramirez zoomed right and left, preparing for batting practice and warm...
Like Garciaparra, Burks also took batting practice from Hendricks on Wednesday to work on his timing and mechanics. Burks, now in his 22nd year in pro baseball, said he was impressed with the Harvard senior’s accurate arm and pitch movement...
...attraction? Huge returns. In 2003, hedge funds globally returned an estimated 13%, with a projection to do the same this year. That's more than double the projected return for equities. "We're looking for solid returns," says Malcolm Gray, finance director of Railpen Investments, the investment arm of Britain's Railways Pension scheme, which last month said it would invest $1.1 billion in hedge funds. "We think the price of bonds is too high; we're worried about the price-earnings ratios of equities. [With hedge funds] we want to get some absolute income in." Yet even though...