Word: blowingly
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...Karzai's government, was killed in his car outside the Ministry of Public Works. Two gunmen, who had been hiding in bushes by the driveway, riddled the car with bullets. Qadir was one of the leading figures of Afghanistan's majority Pashtun community, and his death deals a grievous blow to the stability of Karzai's team...
...were tracking them," said Colonel Roger King, a Pentagon spokesman at Bagram air base, north of Kabul. So the gunship--a flying arsenal loaded with machine guns and a 105-mm howitzer--fired on the compound. Subsequent comments by U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld did little to soften the blow. "There cannot be the use of that kind of firepower and not have mistakes," he said. "It is going to happen...
...possession is not an arrestable offense. Greenfield thinks that moves to decriminalize the drug are based on "the greatest myth of all" - the belief that cannabis is essentially harmless. "Having studied the effects of so-called soft drugs on the brain, I'm convinced that pot smokers are literally blowing their minds," she says. "We're starting to live in a drug culture, where instead of having fulfilled and interesting lives, people seek oblivion from the stresses of life through a chemical route." Despite her unhappiness with the government's actions, she finds the response from schoolchildren and young offenders...
...taken a while for the blow to sink in. a market crash doesn't always come in a day. It can sneak up, slow and surreal, and you can think you survived it only to find it has barely begun. Now each week brings a new shudder and crack-first Enron and Arthur Anderson, then WorldCom, Adelphia, Xerox and the trials of Martha Stewart. Most Americans-72% in the TIME/CNN poll-fear that they see not a few isolated cases but a pattern of deception by a large number of companies. In one survey, more than half of corporate chief...
...always used the All-Star break as a mental blow - I use the time to focus on getting myself going for the home stretch, the second half of the season...