Word: barreled
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...political prisoner told a packed John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum last night that Islam and democracy are compatible ideologies. The charismatic Anwar Ibrahim criticized the “democracy deficit” of many Muslim nations, but also questioned the wisdom of spreading democracy “at the barrel of an M-16.” Noting that the moderate democracy of Indonesia has the world’s largest Muslim population, Ibrahim warned against identifying Islam solely with autocratic regimes like that of Saudi Arabia. Ibrahim, who is now a visiting professor at Georgetown University, was forced...
Maybe life wasn’t a barrel of laughs at the time, but it makes what’s happening now all the sweeter...
...unlike the quartet of Desperate Housewives, they don't have affairs with pistol-packing plumbers. But what this winsome wallflower of a comedy-drama lacks in pyrotechnics, it makes up for with tart, zippy dialogue that explores their work, love and family dilemmas without cracking open the mush barrel...
...directions, and in four to six weeks you can be uncorking wine from your own chteau or apartment. To move beyond kits to get the whole grape-stomping experience, you have to spend at least an additional $400 to buy the basics: grape crusher, strainer, press and barrel...
...appearing on TV in a cardigan and calling for sacrifice, there was a clear sense of national emergency. That crisis receded, thanks in part to conservation and investments in energy efficiency and in part to the worldwide recession the oil shocks helped trigger. As a result, a barrel of oil costs 30% less today, in inflation-adjusted dollars, than it did at its peak in 1981. This is not the first time the world has run out of oil. Yergin says it's the fifth or sixth...