Word: blows
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...indiscriminately into a crowd of unarmed civilians. That, at least, must have been the hope of every resident who defied an army-enforced curfew in the Kashmiri town of Sopore last Thursday to protest a massacre that left 55 people dead and scores injured. It was India's latest blow in a three-year campaign to crush the predominantly Muslim state's bid for independence. In retaliation for the killing of one soldier, paramilitary forces rampaged through Sopore's market setting buildings ablaze and shooting bystanders. The Indian government pronounced the event "unfortunate" and claimed that an ammunition dump...
...city/ I feel love again") by wondering if this buoyancy heralds "a new breakthrough" or "an old breakdown." And in the soft, scary Monopoly, about a departed lover, Colvin flays herself: "I'd rather do anything/ Than write this song for you." She warns herself not to soften the blow with irony: "Retreating behind these lines/ The same old tongue in cheek/ Regretting that both are mine." She swells into Faustian rage ("Imagine the nerve of God/ Letting me let you in") before sinking with the admission that "I would be anywhere/ Than here without you." This is bitter poetry...
...hardest hit are industrial giants, which support millions of aging retirees, whose medical bills far exceed those of younger people. Ford Motor, for example, was compelled to make a fourth-quarter write- off of $7.5 billion to account for the costs of providing medical coverage + for its retirees, a blow that will probably force the automaker to report the largest annual loss (nearly $7 billion) ever suffered by a U.S. corporation. AT&T expects to take a similar write-off this year, and General Motors, with far more retirees, may face a catastrophic deficit when it finally takes the health...
...city is looking at electric cars and new pollution controls for buses and industry. The situation is desperate enough that the ordinarily sensible mayor, Manuel Camacho Solis, has entertained daffy ideas such as the installation of 100 giant fan complexes, each 13.3 hectares (33 acres) in size, to blow pollution out of the area...
First, there's the issue of his past lobbying. As The Wall Street Journal reported yesterday, Brown went to bat for the oppressive Haitian government as far back as 1982, and the Boggs and Blow (Blow?) firm represented the Bank of Credit and Commerce International...