Word: barreled
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That doesn't mean that Amtrak, a creature of pork-barrel politics, is the right entity to revive rail travel. Burdened by the conflicting missions of providing comprehensive nationwide service and making a profit, Amtrak has failed at both. Now many experts are concluding that Amtrak as we know it will probably have to be scrapped--perhaps to be replaced by semiprivatized, regional passenger-train networks...
Another area in which Urinetown shines is its self-conscious narrative, principally delivered by Officer Lockstock (do you even have to ask if his partner’s name is Barrel?) and sometimes prompted by questions from Little Sally. The dialogue between the two is far funnier than it has any right to be. After a drippy and yet oddly charming love song, Little Sally muses that Hope, the female ingénue, loves her male counterpart, Bobby. “Of course, she does,” replies Officer Lockstock breaking down into tears in his best tribute...
...hates to cook, is a tidy combination of several realms of domesticity, and as such, it looks kind of funny hanging in my kitchen. This particular apron is made of material with little menorahs on it. My aunt made it for my mother one scraping-the-bottom-of-the-barrel gift season. I actually wore it recently, at home over Thanksgiving break while assessing the soup potential of the turkey carcass. I could tell that no one else had worn or washed the apron since early September because a pesto stain still covered the “Ch?...
...That doesn't mean that Amtrak, a creature of pork-barrel politics, is the right entity to revive rail travel. Burdened by the conflicting missions of providing comprehensive nationwide service and making a profit, Amtrak has failed at both. Now many experts are concluding that Amtrak as we know it will probably have to be scrapped--perhaps to be replaced by semiprivatized, regional passenger-train networks...
...then there?s the other good news: Oil is now around $17 a barrel, its lowest level since June 1999, and prices at the pump are down a third since spring and only headed lower in the near term, thanks to an OPEC price war that?s turning the Middle East oil belt into some semblance of the airline industry. Cheap oil is tough on developing countries - who are usually trying to sell it - but it?s tidings of comfort and joy for consumer economies like the U.S. and Europe...