Word: bannering
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...sleeping, a motley parade wound down Main Street in my hometown. The high school marching band, competition-honed, demarcated the route with a syncopated rolling step; Boy Scouts, American flags braced in brackets at their belts, marched raggedly; Brownies walked four abreast at such an uneven pace that the banner they carried looked wavy, as though at the bottom of a shallow pool. The Veterans of Foreign Wars, waving little flags, rumbled down Main Street in a convertible not yet old enough to be antique, followed at a distance by a knot of grizzled Veterans for Peace...
...Three Gorges Dam. He says local officials embezzled much of his compensation money, and he's here to petition the congress for redress. "I want to ask the delegates who they represent, who elected them," he says. At the nearby train station, six uniformed police watch from under a banner that reads "Use a Brand New Outlook to Welcome the 16th Party Congress." With a shout, the petitioners tear off as the police approach, leaving behind their cooking pots and the fire they had built to cook cabbages and steamed buns...
...suspect ran out to see what was happening, they ran in. Three European countries, 12 suspects nabbed in two busts and tens of millions of dollars in pirated software - just another couple of weeks in the fight against the counterfeiters, who appear to be headed for another banner year, cutting into legitimate sales by billions of dollars. In 2001, worldwide losses from software piracy were estimated at $10.9 billion, with 25% of that coming from Europe. Eastern Europe is particularly notorious: an estimated 67% of all software installed there is illegitimate. But even with its traditionally strong intellectual property laws...
...sextoyz!” it proclaimed in a bold banner announcement, advertising the group’s third annual sex toys party...
Keaney sings a melody from the Star Wars soundtrack as he pulls a cloth campaign banner from the car and unrolls it at the corner of Cambridge and Beacon Streets...