Word: broking
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Meanwhile, in Miami, in a carpeted ballroom at the Jungle Island tourist attraction, stoked Obama supporters drank beer and wine and ate flan while watching election results on CNN and MSNBC. After the Ohio win was announced, all hell broke loose. "O-Ba-Ma!" they chanted. It was a diverse crowd: Cuban Americans who had voted Republican until this election, Hillary Clinton supporters who carried buttons for her in their pockets and traditional party liners wearing jeans and drinking beer. Many wore "I Voted for Change" stickers. In a corner, Eloisa Hidalgo dabbed tears as states began coming...
Texas: Who Did Early Voters Go for? 10:45 a.m. E.T. Visits by Presidential candidates Obama and McCain have been as rare as jackalope sightings in Texas this campaign season, but apparently that has not dampened Texans' enthusiasm for the contest. Early voting turnout broke all the records this year with 8.5 million voters casting their ballots in the state's 15 most populous counties before early polls closed on Halloween eve. When the early vote totals come in from the state's other 239 counties the numbers could be staggering and Texas Secretary of State Hope Andrade is anticipating...
...Florida, for example, some of the new optical-scan machines, which replaced the hanging-chad punch machines of eight years ago, broke down, forcing election officials in several counties to place hand-marked ballots in the lockboxes attached to the non-functioning machines. When the lockboxes became full, officials had to stuff ballots into duffel bags or stack them on the floor. "Not the most secure place," said Jon Greenbaum, Election Protection's top lawyer...
...That, in brief, could describe the Chinese Product Safety Scandal of 2008. As early as January, infants in China raised on Sanlu brand baby formula began developing kidney problems, and parents raised complaints that were ignored by company and local government officials. When the news finally broke in September, tests found four infants had died and more than 60,000 were sickened from formula tainted with melamine, a chemical used in plastics that can make the protein content of milk - and many other food products - appear higher, and, when consumed, can also cause kidney failure. Expanded inspections found traces...
...diethylene glycol used in cough medicine that killed more than 100 Panamanians."While China's State Council announced new rules for stricter controls on food producers and tougher punishments for violators, poor oversight allowed producers to adulterate dairy products and animal feed with melamine until the latest scandal broke in September. And that means that after the livestock feed recall, the list of tainted products is likely to grow. "If animals are fed this stuff, then they have it in their meat," says Nestle. While Beijing has announced expanded testing procedures for the dairy industry, cracked down on melamine producers...