Word: belt
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...blow southward. This year's storms could suck up soot from the oil fires and unusually large amounts of dirt loosened by explosions and the movement of armies during the war. Intensified by heat from the fires, the storms could spread a mist of soot and oil across a belt of countries, ranging from Saudi Arabia to India. Apart from posing a health threat to the people closest to ground zero, the pollution is likely to harm wildlife, agriculture and fisheries. At worst, fallout from the oil fires may disrupt the region's annual monsoon rains...
...managerial elites in several African countries. Budget cutters hungrily eye the estimated $30 billion in often redundant spending by the CIA and other elements of the intelligence community. To address these challenges, Bob Gates offers close ties with the White House and Pentagon, broad CIA experience and a black belt in bureaucratic politics...
...Michigan-born Madonna has three world tours, 20-plus music videos, seven feature films and eight albums under her Boy Toy belt. She has single-handedly created a boom in music-video sales. That the image refracted in the media-crazed mirror never settles is hypnotizing. Her throwaway line "Experience has made me rich/ And now they're after me," from her tune Material Girl, seems more a wily prophecy than mere egoistic cant. Her latest public catharsis -- a quantum artistic growth spurt, if you will -- is Truth or Dare. It is a panoramic, emetic, beauty-marks-and-all, feature...
Though junketing on government aircraft is a common practice among high Washington officials, including many members of Congress, it does not sit well with the public at a time of recession, rising taxes and budgetary belt tightening. Eyebrows were raised last week, for example, when CBS News reported that Vice President Dan Quayle and Transportation Secretary Samuel Skinner had taken an Air Force executive jet to Georgia for a golf weekend that cost taxpayers an estimated...
Harvard entered last Friday's doubleheader against Brown with confidence and a winning season under its belt. Although the Crimson was swept by the Bears, 2-0 and 7-1, it finished the season over 500 with a 21-7 record, handily defeating Lowell, 1-0 and 3-1, in its last two games...