Word: backyarders
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...charm and witty repartée means that the show isn’t as vulgar or sleazy as one might expect. The show has traveled far from its origins in backyard Aussie suburbia: it’s already hit venues such as the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, London’s West End, and New York’s off-Broadway scene. Here in the Boston area this weekend, there’s no better opportunity to come and let it all hang...
...whom promised at an early meeting, “If you build it, we’re going to bomb it.” The residents of the Riverside neighborhood have every reason to overreact, given that the Mather House and Peabody Terrace high-rises were stuck in their backyard with little consultation...
...President Bush's "axis of evil" campaign about to be undermined in his own backyard? A proposed uranium enrichment facility planned in Hartsville, Tenn. (pop. 2,395) raises just that question. One of the plant's principal backers is URENCO, a European consortium linked to leaks of enrichment technology to, yes, Iran, Iraq, and North Korea - as well as to Pakistan...
...telephone companies to complete calls and therefore were not capital outlays but operating costs, which should be expensed in full each year. It was as if an ordinary person had paid his phone bills but written down the payments as if he were building a phone tower in his backyard. The trick allowed WorldCom to turn a $662 million loss into a $2.4 billion profit...
...Unabomber, Ted Kaczynski; 23 and 27 years, respectively, to catch Kathleen Soliah and James Kilgore of the Symbionese Liberation Army; and for six years and counting, Eric Rudolph, the alleged '96 Atlanta Olympics bomber, has been at large, happily grilling venison burgers deep in the backwoods of our own backyard. Stephen Phillips Narberth...