Word: arms
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This is home to the Emergency Service Center an arm of Cambridge and Somerville Alcoholism Rehabilitation (CASPAR) and only shelter in the area willing to provide beds for homeless alcoholics. Last year, the center housed 25,357 people--an average of 55 each night--in its 45 beds...
...crisis in the gulf propelled the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff to a rare sort of fame: a life-size cardboard figure beside which Washington tourists can stand and be photographed with an arm around Powell. He joins Presidents, First Ladies and Ollie North...
...tyrannosaurus outside the museum. The bones will go on display much as his crew found them. The idea is to let ordinary museumgoers see the evidence from which paleontologists make their leaps of reasoning and imagination. They will be able to argue, for instance, over the only tyrannosaurus arm ever found. It is about as long as a human arm -- too short, in Horner's view, to be much use in predation, but far more muscular than previously thought, having been capable of curling 400 lbs. Horner seems to relish arguing such questions imaginatively far more than actually proving himself...
...Republican presidential task force, a fund-raising arm of the G.O.P., has been sending out $25 checks to nearly 700,000 Americans. All the recipients have to do is endorse them and deposit them in their banks. However, there is a tiny little catch, as an accompanying letter explains. The deposited check gives the task force the right to withdraw $12.50 a month from the individual's account for what it calls candidate escrow funding. Lucky recipients of the checks are allowed to exit the program after two payments have been extracted -- there goes the $25 -- but they are encouraged...
...leading to the airport. "Despite all the millions of profits they were showing on paper, M.D.C. and Silverado had been running on empty for a long time, and they looked at potential profits from the new airport as a savior," says a former key employee of M.D.C.'s housing arm...