Word: barreled
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...Kertes and the people around him profited immensely from his position. In his home town of Backa Palanka on the Croatian border, he made sure his friends got jobs and even doled out gifts to kindergarten children from vast warehouses built in town to house confiscated goods. The pork barrel paid off. In last September's elections, Backa Palanka was one of the only districts in the country to vote Milosevic...
...fact, the junior righthander was staring down the barrel of a gun all day long. A projected first round draft pick in this June's amateur draft, Crockett attracted a throng of scouts who stood in the bleachers Friday-radar guns in hand-charting his every pitch...
...predicts, then, that the current economic slowdown would have the most visible effect on a store like Crate & Barrel, or on costly Square restaurants...
...Crate & Barrel, manager Josh Murphy says sales are level since last year...
...nonetheless have been a windfall for the Chinese leader. Pilloried by hawkish critics for having responded too limply to NATO's erroneous bombing of China's Belgrade embassy two years ago, this week Jiang set out to burnish his prestige by acting as if he had Washington over a barrel...