Word: bunked
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...Attorney Zhou Litai would agree. Zhou represents some of the most visible victims of Shenzhen's march to prosperity. At his crumbling four-story home in the down-at-the-heel Shenzhen suburb of Longgang, 40 of his clients, all amputees, live six to a bunk-bedded room. They lost their arms or legs in machinery at local factories set up by Hong Kong and Taiwanese firms. None has an artificial limb and all received derisory compensation, generally a one-off payment of around $1,000. Official figures show there are 13,000 serious work injuries each year...
...Adams House, bunk beds were brough into a private dining hall for one of the hourly Adams dining hall staff. He was joined by "a few others, proably security or cleaning staff," McGahee says...
...come through his doors were not his usual patrons. For a moment they just stood and stared, taking in luxury to which they were clearly unaccustomed. Then, with shouts of delight, 20 boys between ages 6 and 13 rushed into their new dormitory bedroom, gleefully threw themselves onto the bunk beds and rolled on the clean, white sheets...
...like her very much, but the Christian woman should return to America," says a local policeman. For now, Valori sits quietly in the tiny apartment she wants to keep as home. Hannah, Victoria, Esther, Loice, Mary and Charity have said their prayers and are tucked into their bunk beds. The prized upright piano she and Bruce bought last November sits in her bedroom, ready for the morning's hymns. And as the policemen, cadres and other details of the communist state tromp through her living room, she simply retreats to the back room and to her Bible. "I have survived...
...call it). Its AIM software is available free on the Net to any user who wants it, and AOL has readily licensed the technology to competitors. But the company argues that opening up its system could expose users to hackers and spam and other nastiness. IMUnified says that's bunk, that the technical questions are child's play ("My grandmother could implement interoperability"), and that AOL should get with the program...