Word: bannered
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...with the blessing of its most famous fan: Mandela. He came to Paris to root for the Springboks and to accept from the International Rugby Board a crystal rugby ball bearing the inscription: "For what you have done during the 1995 World Cup to unite your nation under the banner of rugby." Much is left for others to do to live up to that daunting promise...
...says, was that he had had the foresight to buy an outgoing air ticket that day and was, thus, technically a passenger. He called himself a "stealth welcoming committee," but admitted that he would be able to provide little of the fanfare his group had anticipated. Carrying a banner would have been too risky. "How could I have brought it?" Khan asks. "I was searched every time. I can chant or shout slogans when he comes out." He never got the chance. After more than four hours of waiting, word trickled out that Sharif had been sent to Saudi Arabia...
...approach to business competition and regulation, product standards and corporate governance. A recent study at the Australian National University's College of Asia and the Pacific estimated that fully implementing such reforms would add over $100 billion a year to APEC's collective income. Structural reform "won't get banner headlines," says Heseltine, "but it is immensely important...
...deal in harsher, edgier thoughts. Rosemary, a Londoner in her 50s who declined to give her last name, insisted that Diana "got a raw deal." Another woman lamented her "appalling treatment from day one of her marriage." Laminated newspaper stories smearing Prince Charles were pinned to the gates. One banner, screaming "LONG LIVE THE QUEEN/DIANA FOREVER," was far less polite about Charles and Camilla, Charles' life-long love who is now his wife. The reason a decade hasn't dimmed Diana's memory, said a third woman, "is that she epitomized every facet of human frailty, and reached...
Kirkland, Wash., is a leafy suburb of Seattle, on the shore of Lake Washington. A banner hangs over the main drag reminding visitors that Kirkland is the home of the 2007 Junior Softball World Series. Not far away stands a large unmarked building. It's oddly shaped, with a domed roof; it used to house batting cages, and before that, it was a hardware store. A security guard sits at the front desk, but he doesn't have a lot to do, because nobody ever comes in--though if there were a sign outside, the place would be mobbed...