Word: bags
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...care for her grandsons herself, but she wanted the brothers kept together. Instead the boys were placed in separate foster homes. Tommy, the younger, slept on a urine-stained mattress without a sheet. "He cried pitifully," Sweeney recalls. "He wouldn't eat or play. He sat with a shopping bag under his arm." The youngster was returned to his grandmother's house, but soon his mother, who temporarily cleaned herself up with the help of a detox program, regained custody of the boys...
...important differences. "All the contenders are relatively little known in national terms," says Barrett. "This fact, together with the short preseason competition, means a candidate has very little opportunity to recover from a stumble." Because Iowa's favorite son Senator Tom Harkin has that state's caucuses in the bag, Barrett feels the New Hampshire primary is "even more important than ever." In addition, it seems that each year polling and television commercials play an ever larger role. But in January of an election year, a political junkie's proper place is shivering at the candidates' side. TIME's chief...
...course, rent control advocates call the suit a "grab bag" of landlord gripes, saying that the fight has been fought before, and that the landlords lost...
...This is a grab bag of various items, some of which have already been litigated extensively in the state courts," says Mike Turk, co-chair of the Cambridge Tenants Union, an organization that has often found itself at odds with SPOA...
...meager items city officials provide or to purchase scarce goods like meat at inflated prices in the free markets or from street vendors. Explains Natalya, an assistant director in a Moscow theater: "I can spend a third of my monthly salary just buying 2 lbs. of pork or a bag of mandarin oranges...